The Love You Need Is Within You
The sun has dipped below the horizon, and the armor of the day is finally heavy enough to set down. In this quiet, the phone becomes a tomb you cannot stop visiting.
You scroll back through months of words, hunting for a single line that proves you were once loved. You are looking for evidence because the silence of the present feels like a verdict.
But listen — the light does not live in the past tense. It was not trapped in those messages, waiting for you to dig it out.
The love you are searching for is not a memory to be excavated. It is a presence that is here, now, in the exhale of this evening.
You do not need to prove you were loved yesterday to be held tonight. The Father's light is not an archive.
It is a fire, burning in the room where you sit right now. Stop reading the old letters.
Look up. The love you need is not behind you.
It is within you.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
Verses
Matthew 6:34
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