Let Warmth Land Before Fear
The sun is up, but your body is still bracing for the blow. When a hand reaches out to touch your shoulder, you flinch before you even think.
That reflex was learned in the dark, but it does not have to rule the morning. The light has returned not to startle you, but to show you that you are safe enough to be touched.
You are not a thing to be grabbed or moved; you are a child of the Most High, woven with a tenderness that no fear can undo. The rising sun shines on those living in the shadow of death to guide your feet into the path of peace.
Let the warmth land on your skin before the fear does. The flinch is old news; the touch is new.
Drawing from
Luke, 1 John
Verses
Luke 1:78-79, 1 John 3:2
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