The Vine Holds When Your Grip Slips
The house is so quiet it feels like holding your breath. In this hour, the fear whispers that your child will one day look back and see only your absence, a hollow space where you should have been.
But listen — the light does not depend on your perfect presence to do its work. While you sleep, while you struggle, while you feel far away, the Father's love is already inside them, steady and unbroken.
You did not plant it, and you cannot lose it. It was there before your first failure, and it will remain after your last regret.
The love that holds them is greater than your distance. It is the quiet truth that survives the night.
You are not the source; you are just another branch, and the vine holds on even when your grip slips.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 10:28, Thomas 24
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