Drop the script you wrote in the dark
The house is quiet now, but your mind is still rehearsing the speech you never gave. You practiced the words all night, pacing the floor, getting the tone just right, building the courage to say what needed to be said.
And then morning came, or the moment passed, and the words dissolved on your tongue. You woke up and realized you still don't know how to speak them.
The silence feels like failure. It feels like cowardice.
But the light does not demand your perfect delivery. There was a man born blind, and the people around him demanded an explanation for his suffering.
They wanted a theology, a reason, a defense. He didn't have one.
He couldn't argue with the scholars. He only knew one thing: I was blind, but now I see.
He stopped trying to explain the mystery and simply stated the fact of his own healing. You do not need the perfect argument.
You do not need to defend your heart with eloquence. The light is not waiting for a sermon.
It is waiting for your honesty. Drop the script you wrote in the dark.
The truth does not need to be practiced. It only needs to be spoken, however brokenly.
The words you are looking for are not the ones you rehearsed. They are the ones that rise when you finally stop trying to be impressive.
Drawing from
John 9:25, John 9:3
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