The Father Ran Before The Mask
The sun is up, and you made it through another night, even if it feels like you walked it alone. You put on your face for the morning, smiling at strangers who think they see you, while the real you stays hidden behind the glass.
But there is a Father who saw his son coming home from a long way off—he did not wait for the speech, he ran. Before the explanation, before the mask could be fixed—he ran.
You are not invisible to the light that lives inside you. It knows the parts of you that you have never said out loud.
The dawn does not ask you to perform; it only asks you to be here. You are known completely, even in the silence of this new day.
Drawing from
Luke 15:20, John 10:14-15
Verses
Luke 15:20, John 10:14
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