Loved in the Place You Are Shattered

The room is quiet now, and the inventory of the day begins to weigh on you. You are afraid that if you finally speak the truth about your pain, the people who love you will see the cracks and walk away.

You think your brokenness is a burden they cannot carry. But there is a love that does not depend on your wholeness.

It is a love that ran to meet you while you were still far off, before you could even finish your apology. That same love is not afraid of your darkness.

It knows exactly what is in you, and it chose to stay. The truth will not drive the light away — it is the only thing that lets it in.

You are not loved despite your brokenness; you are loved in the very place where you feel most shattered.