The Light That Chooses To Stay
The sun is rising, and with it comes the fear that today someone might finally see the cracks you've been hiding all night. You worry that if they saw the depth of your hurting, they would be disgusted and walk away.
But the light does not walk away from what it illuminates. It reveals so it can hold.
There is a room inside you where you hide your shame, convinced it must stay dark. Yet the light has already entered that room, seen everything, and decided to stay.
You are not too broken to be loved. You are the very place the light chooses to dwell.
The dawn proves that nothing you carry can extinguish what lives within you.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 24, 1 John 3:19-20
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