Your Survival Is An Assignment Not A Sin
The news landed, and for a split second, your chest loosened because it wasn't you. Then the shame hit—harder than the relief.
You call yourself selfish for feeling safe while others suffer. But listen: that flicker of safety is not a sin.
It is the light recognizing its own boundary. The Good came to restore every nature to its root, not to punish the instinct that keeps you standing.
You were sent as a drop from the light to illuminate this very moment, not to drown in the guilt of surviving it. The light does not condemn you for breathing easier when the storm missed your house.
It simply asks you to let that relief become the fuel that moves you toward the one who wasn't so lucky. Your survival is not a theft.
It is an assignment.
Drawing from
Gospel of Mary, Sophia of Jesus Christ, Luke
Verses
Gospel of Mary 4:28-29, Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:5-8
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