Dawn Does Not Judge Your Midnight
The sun is rising now, washing the room in a color that makes the 2am screen glow look like a different lifetime. You are re-reading your own words, tracing the exact moment the tone shifted from confident to desperate, looking for the crack where you lost control.
But the light of dawn does not judge the night's frantic searching; it simply arrives, silent and steady, to show you that the sun rose anyway. The darkness has not overcome the light that was speaking through you even when your voice shook.
You were not abandoned in those desperate sentences; you were being held by a love that does not require your composure to remain present. The morning is not a verdict on your midnight unraveling; it is proof that the light returns whether you held it together or fell apart.
Drawing from
John, Luke
Verses
John 1:5, Luke 1:78-79
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