The Light Sees Your Tremor
The mask is heavy by mid-morning, and you are already calculating the cost of your own exhaustion. You smile at the desk, you nod in the meeting, but inside there is a quiet panic whispering that your fatigue is a burden they will eventually resent.
You feel like you are borrowing time against a debt you cannot pay. But the light sees the tremor behind the performance, and it does not turn away in disgust.
There was a man paralyzed for thirty-eight years, lying beside a pool while the world rushed past him, certain he was too broken to be worth the trouble. The light did not ask him to stand up first.
It did not demand he fix his condition before offering care. It simply asked if he wanted to be well, and then told him to pick up the very mat that had defined his limitation.
Your weariness is not a flaw in the design. It is the signal that you have been carrying a weight you were never meant to hold alone.
The light is not waiting for you to be fresh; it is waiting to carry the fresh weight of you.
Drawing from
John 5:6-8, John 16:33
Verses
John 16:33
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