Dawn Is Not Betrayal But Proof
The sun is rising, and for a moment, the light feels like a betrayal of the one who didn't make it to morning. You carry their silence into this new day, afraid that your relief means you have forgotten them.
But the light that woke you up is the same light that held them in their final hour. It does not choose between the living and the gone.
It simply is. The dawn is not an erasure of their sacrifice; it is the proof that their love was strong enough to outlast the dark.
You are not betraying them by breathing. You are carrying the light they left behind.
Drawing from
Luke 1:78-79, John 1:4-5
Verses
Luke 1:78-79, John 1:4-5
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