The Armor Can Come Off Now
The house is quiet now, but your bones still hum with the day's noise. You carried the weight of every small crisis, every scraped knee, every unanswered question—all by yourself.
The armor you wore to keep them safe feels fused to your skin, heavy and hot. But the sun has set, and the performance is over.
You do not have to hold the world together for the next few hours. The light that guided you through the chaos does not demand your vigilance now; it only asks for your rest.
It sees the single parent who showed up, again and again, when no one else was there. That faithfulness was not invisible.
It was enough. The day is done, and you are still here.
Drawing from
1 John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
1 John 3:18-19
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