The Light That Sees Through Your Mistake
The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with a scene from three years ago. A single word spoken wrong.
A door closed too fast. You play it on a loop until the mistake feels like proof that you never belonged here at all.
But the light does not keep a ledger of your stumbles. It simply shines.
There is a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off — still covered in the filth of his failure — and he ran. Before the apology, before the speech, he ran.
The past cannot hold you if you stop feeding it your attention. The mistake was real, but it is not your root.
You are not the error you replay in the dark. You are the light that sees through it.
Drawing from
Luke, 1 John
Verses
Luke 15:20, 1 John 1:5
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