Open Your Hands to the Dawn
The sun is up, but your hands are still clenched tight around the ones you love. You know exactly what waits in the dark, and that knowledge feels like a duty to shield them from every shadow.
But your grip is becoming the very thing that stops them from breathing. You are trying to build a wall where there should be a window.
The light does not smother; it reveals. It trusts the morning enough to let go.
Your fear says: hold on tighter. The truth says: open your hands.
The dawn is already here, and it is safer than your protection could ever be. You do not have to be the shield anymore.
Drawing from
1 John 4:18, Mark 4:26-28
Verses
1 John 4:18, Mark 4:26-28
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