Light Stronger Than Your Brokenness

The morning light is harsh on the face you wear to work. You smile at the coffee machine, but inside, there is a terror that your child will inherit the broken parts of you that you cannot fix.

You worry that your cracks are the only thing they will see. That your shadows are the only thing they will learn.

But there is a light that lives inside them that was there before your first mistake. It is not dependent on your perfection.

It is not stained by your history. The same light that walked through the world full of grace and truth lives in your child right now.

It is stronger than your brokenness. Stronger than your fear.

Your job today is not to be flawless. It is simply to remain.

To let that light shine through the cracks you tried to hide. The darkness has not overcome it.

And it never will.