You Are Not a Drain on the Light
The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with the day's inventory. You are replaying every moment you felt like a weight, every time your need seemed to drain someone you love.
In the gathering dark, shame loves to rewrite history, turning your vulnerability into a burden and your love into a debt. But listen — the Father's heart does not keep a ledger of how much you take.
He ran to meet the son who wasted everything, not to lecture him on the cost, but to embrace him before the apology could even form. You are not a drain on the light; you are the very reason it shines.
The love you receive is not a limited resource you are depleting; it is an ocean that exists to hold you. Tonight, put down the heavy book of your mistakes.
The light is not tired of you. It is simply waiting for you to rest.
Drawing from
Luke, 1 John
Verses
Luke 15:20, 1 John 4:19
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