The Dawn Happens Whether You Watch
The sun is up, but you feel nothing. That hollow space inside whispers a terrible lie: that your numbness means you are becoming the monster you fear.
But the rising sun does not wait for your feelings to arrive before it shines. It comes anyway.
Tender mercy is already breaking over you, guiding your feet into a path you cannot yet see. You are not turning into the darkness; you are simply exhausted from fighting it.
The light that lives within you is not a fire you must keep stoked — it is a dawn that happens whether you watch or not. You made it through the night, and that is enough.
The numbness is not your identity; it is just the quiet after the storm.
Drawing from
Luke, 1 John
Verses
Luke 1:78-79, 1 John 2:8
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