The Light Kneels Beside the Water
The water is running, but your feet will not move toward the tub. The shame is a heavy coat you cannot take off, whispering that needing hands to wash you makes you less than human.
In this deepest hour, the light does not ask you to stand. It kneels beside the water and waits.
There was a man born blind, and the disciples asked whose sin had closed his eyes, but the light said: neither this man nor his parents sinned. The brokenness was not a verdict.
It was a canvas. Your need is not a failure.
It is the place where the light touches you first. Let the hands that help you be the hands of the divine, gentle and unhurried.
You are not a burden. You are the reason the light came down.
Drawing from
John 9:3, Mark 7:34
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