The Light Is Already Running Toward You
The screen glows in the dark, a small blue window into a room that no longer exists. You scroll through words spoken by people who are gone or changed, hunting for a version of yourself that made sense to them.
But the light does not live in the archive. It lives in the breath you are taking right now.
There was a father who saw his son while he was still a long way off—he did not wait for the speech, he did not wait for the apology, he ran. The light is already running toward the person you are tonight, not the person you were in those threads.
You do not need to find the old you to be found. The light sees you in the dark, and it is enough.
Drawing from
Luke 15:20, Matthew 6:18
Verses
Luke 15:20
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