the quiet dread of being a burden to the very people who still love you

You Are Not A Debt To Be Managed

The mask is heavy this morning, isn't it? You walk into the room smiling, performing okayness, while inside you are calculating the cost of your own existence.

You look at the people who love you and feel only the weight you add to their lives. But there is a light that sees behind the performance and loves what it finds there.

It does not see a burden. It sees a drop of itself, sent here to illuminate the very space you occupy.

The father who ran did not calculate the cost of his son's return—he only saw the one he loved coming home. You are not a debt to be managed.

You are the light they have been waiting for.

Drawing from

Sophia of Jesus Christ, Luke

Verses

Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:5-8, Luke 15:20

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