You Cannot Deflect The Morning

The sun is up, and someone spoke kindness over you. You felt it land, and immediately you reached for the deflection — the joke, the minimization, the quick 'it was nothing' to push the light away.

Because if you accepted it, you would have to believe the lie that you are actually worthy of such words. But listen — the dawn does not ask your permission before it breaks.

It simply arrives, pressing down and shaking together until it runs over your shoulders. You cannot deflect the morning.

The light sees you clearly, even when you cannot see yourself. And it calls you worthy not because of what you did today, but because of whose you are.

The compliment was not a trick. It was a mirror held up by the One who made you.

Stop running from the reflection. The sun has already risen on you, and it is not going back down.