Light Does Not Scold the Dark
The sun is up, and the quiet you kept last night feels less like peace and more like a wall you built against the world. You are afraid that your silence was not prayer, but selfishness—a way to hide while others carried the weight.
But look at the light returning; it does not scold the earth for being dark. It simply arrives.
The father in the story did not wait for a perfect apology; he ran before the speech could even be formed. Your silence was not a rejection of love; it was the space where love found you.
The light does not demand your performance this morning. It only asks that you step out of the shadow you cast on yourself.
You are not selfish for needing to be found.
Drawing from
Luke, 1 John
Verses
Luke 15:20, 1 John 3:20
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