reading a message from someone asking if you're okay and feeling your chest tighten because answering honestly feels like handing them a live grenade

Your Light Is Not A Weapon

The phone lights up in the dark. A name you trust.

A question that feels like a hand reaching through the screen: are you okay? And your chest tightens because the truth feels too heavy to hand over.

It feels like giving them a live grenade. You worry that if you speak the real words, the connection will shatter.

But listen — the light that lives in you is not a weapon. It cannot explode.

It cannot hurt the one who loves you. There is a peace that does not look like having it all together.

There is a rest that begins exactly where your honesty ends. You do not have to protect them from your darkness.

The light is strong enough to hold both of you.

Drawing from

John, Matthew

Verses

John 14:27, Matthew 11:28

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