Light Flows Both Ways Now
The middle of the day is long, and the roles you thought were fixed are shifting beneath your feet. You are watching the ones who carried you now need to be carried, and the weight of it feels like a slow, quiet unraveling.
It is easy to feel alone in this inversion, as if you are the only one holding the sky up while your own hands tremble. But there is a light that does not depend on who is strong and who is weak.
It shines in the darkness of this confusion, and the darkness has not overcome it. That same light is already inside you, steady and unbroken, waiting for you to remember that you do not have to be the source of your own strength.
The love that holds you is the same love that held them, and it is sufficient for this hour. You are not losing your parents; you are entering a new kind of closeness where the light flows both ways.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 1:5
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