The Father Runs Before You Speak
The sun is dipping below the line, and the armor you wore all day suddenly feels too heavy to keep on. You are terrified that if you finally sit still, the mask will slip and everyone will see the panic underneath.
But the light does not need your performance to love you—it already sees the trembling hands and calls them holy. There was a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off.
He ran. Before the apology, before the speech—he ran.
The father does not wait for you to get it together. He runs to meet you exactly where you are falling apart.
You do not have to hold it together for the light to hold you.
Drawing from
Luke, 1 John
Verses
Luke 15:20, 1 John 4:18
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