loving someone you cannot be with
The sun is dropping, and the house is getting quiet, and you are thinking of someone you cannot hold. It is a specific kind of ache—the armor coming off, but the wound staying open.
You love them, and the distance feels like a wall you cannot climb. But listen: love does not depend on proximity.
The light that lives in you is the same light that lives in them, and no distance can separate what is already one. You do not need to be in the same room to share the same life.
Tonight, you do not have to fix the distance. You only have to let the love remain.
Drawing from
1 John 4:16, John 17:23
Verses
1 John 4:16, John 17:23
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