The Dawn Does Not Ask You To Be Fixed
The sun is rising, and with it comes the old fear that today everyone will finally see what you've been hiding: that you are broken beyond repair. You brace yourself for the morning light to expose the cracks, sure that once people see the real you, they will turn away.
But listen — the Father saw you while you were still a long way off, covered in the dust of your worst mistakes, and he ran. He did not wait for you to get clean.
He did not wait for you to fix yourself. He ran to meet you exactly as you are.
The light of this new day is not a spotlight designed to shame you; it is the same tender mercy that rises to guide your feet into peace. You are not a project to be completed before you are loved.
You are already held. The dawn does not ask you to be fixed; it only asks you to be here.
Drawing from
Luke, 1 John
Verses
Luke 1:78-79, Luke 15:20
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