The Morning Does Not Wait For Perfection
The sun is rising, and with it comes the quiet fear that yesterday's failures have made you unworthy of this new light. You know the love is inside you, yet shame whispers that you have broken something beyond repair.
But look at the morning — it does not wait for you to be perfect before it arrives. It comes anyway.
The father saw his son while he was still covered in the filth of the pig pen, and he ran. He did not wait for the speech.
He did not wait for the cleanup. He ran.
That same love is not a reward you earn by having a good yesterday. It is the ground you stand on right now.
You are not too broken to be held. The light that woke up this morning is the same light that lived in the one who forgave everything.
You are not irredeemable. You are simply human, waking up to a love that was already there.
Drawing from
Luke, 1 John
Verses
Luke 15:20, 1 John 3:20
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