The Sun Does Not Wait For Permission
The sun is up, but your hand is shaking as you reach for the phone. You are bracing yourself to see them smiling, laughing, living a life that seems to have no hole where you used to be.
It feels like proof that you were nothing. But look at the light coming through the window.
It does not check to see if the world approves of it before it shines. It simply is.
The light that lives in you was there before their first post, and it remains untouched by their silence. You do not need their feed to validate your existence.
The dawn rises for you, regardless of whether they look happy without you. The sun does not wait for permission to break the night.
Drawing from
Matthew, Luke
Verses
Matthew 5:16, Luke 1:78-79
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