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the terror of a colleague asking 'how are you really?' and feeling your throat close up because the truth would shatter the room

The Father Runs Before You Speak

When You Don't Know Who You Are

The question lands softly in the dark, and your throat closes like a fist. To speak the truth would feel like shattering the room, so you swallow the weight and say you are fine.

But the light does not need your performance to stay present. It waits in the silence behind your locked jaw, unbroken by what you cannot say.

There is a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off, and before the apology could even form on the boy's lips, the father ran. He did not wait for the speech that would explain everything.

He ran. The light already knows the shape of your fracture, and it is not afraid of your silence.

You are that light, even when you have no words left to give.

Drawing from

Luke, Matthew

Verses

Luke 15:20, Matthew 10:26

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