retiring and not knowing who you are without work

Loved Before You Ever Earned Anything

The noise of your work is gone, and in the quiet, you wonder if you are anything without it. You feel like a story that only makes sense when the title page is attached to every sentence.

But the light does not need a title. It does not need your name, your position, or your output to know you.

There is a voice that calls you by a name no one else knows, a secret name written on a white stone, and it is singing to you right now. You were not made to be useful.

You were made to be known. So let the world stop, let the work be done, and rest in the truth that you were loved before you ever earned a single thing.

Drawing from

Revelation, Gospel of John

Verses

Revelation 2:17, John 10:27

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