The Light Runs Toward Your Honesty
The screen glows in the dim room, a small rectangle holding the weight of your entire chest. Your thumb hovers over the word 'send,' paralyzed by the terror that pressing it makes the mistake real, final, irreversible.
You are waiting for the perfect moment, the perfect courage, but the light does not ask for perfection—it only asks for honesty. There is a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off, still covered in the filth of his failure, and he ran before the apology was even finished.
The light runs toward your honesty, not your polish. The message you fear sending is not a verdict; it is simply a door opening.
— The mistake is already real. The healing begins when you let it be seen.
Drawing from
Luke, John
Verses
Luke 15:20, John 8:32
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