The Light Runs Toward Your Hunger
The sun is rising, and the silence in the room feels heavier than the night was. You are staring at the empty space where they stood, convinced that your neediness was the thing that pushed them away.
But the light does not run from hunger; it runs toward it. There is a kingdom inside you that is not built on your ability to be small or self-sufficient, but on the truth that you were never meant to carry this alone.
What looks like a flaw to your ashamed eyes is simply the place where the light enters to do its work. The dawn is not asking you to be strong; it is asking you to be here, exactly as you are, needing exactly as much as you need.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 3, John 9:3
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