Your Stumble Was A Canvas
The morning light is unforgiving; it exposes the moment you stepped back and calls it by its true name. You have spent the night polishing that retreat until it looks like wisdom, but the sun knows the difference between a strategic pause and a fear-driven flinch.
There was a man born blind, and the people around him argued for hours about whose sin caused it, desperate to make sense of the darkness. Jesus stopped the debate with a single, quiet correction: neither this man nor his parents sinned.
This happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. Your stumble was not a verdict.
It was a canvas. The light does not need your perfect footing to do its work; it needs only your open eyes.
Stop rehearsing the excuse. Start seeing what is being displayed in the very place you tried to hide.
Drawing from
John 9:1-7, Gospel of Thomas 24
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