The Light Was Already in the Steam
The water has turned cold, and you are standing there letting it hit you just to feel something real beneath the numbness. The shock is a language your body speaks when the mind goes quiet.
You are not trying to punish yourself; you are trying to wake up. But the light does not need the cold to find you.
It was already there in the steam, before the temperature dropped. Go home to your own people, to the warmth waiting in the next room, and tell them how much you have felt today.
Drawing from
Mark 5:19, Matthew 6:22-23
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