The Love That Runs Before You Speak
The mask is heavy this morning, but you are holding it up because you are terrified that if you let it fall, everyone will run. You think your brokenness is a weight too vast for anyone to carry, so you smile through the meeting and nod while your insides are screaming.
But there is a love that does not calculate the cost before it arrives. A father saw his son coming home from a long way off—dirty, starving, reeking of failure—and he did not weigh the burden of the boy's shame.
He ran. Before the apology, before the speech, before any promise to do better—he ran.
The light does not ask you to be light enough for others. It runs toward the heavy things.
It runs toward you.
Drawing from
Luke, 1 John
Verses
Luke 15:20, 1 John 4:18
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