He Ran Before You Spoke
The words are ready in your throat, polished by the silence of this hour, but you know they will not change a thing. You are rehearsing a conversation that will never happen, carrying a weight that belongs to a door already closed.
There was a father who saw his son while he was still a long way off — he did not wait for the speech, he did not wait for the apology to be perfect. He ran.
The light does not need your perfect argument to reach you. It sees the ache before you speak it.
The silence between you and them is not the end of the story. The light has already crossed the distance you cannot.
Drawing from
Luke, Sophia of Jesus Christ
Verses
Luke 15:20, Sophia of Jesus Christ 100:1-5
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