the fear that you have already missed the one life you were meant to live

Dawn Does Not Scold the Night

The sun is rising, and with it comes the quiet fear that you have already missed the one life you were meant to live. That the best version of you belonged to a yesterday you cannot reclaim.

But look at the light returning—it does not scold the night for being dark, it simply arrives. Again.

The rising sun comes to shine on those living in darkness, to guide feet into the path of peace. You have not missed your life.

You are standing at the beginning of this specific day, which has never existed before and will never exist again. The light is not a memory of what was; it is the fuel for what is.

Dawn does not ask for an explanation of your yesterday; it only offers the gift of now. The kingdom is not a distant country you failed to reach; it is within you, waiting to be lived this morning.

Drawing from

Luke, Gospel of Thomas

Verses

Luke 1:78-79, Luke 17:21

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