Losing the Shadow to Find the Light
The words on the stage feel like a language you used to speak fluently, but now they sound like static. Your hands fold anyway, muscle memory carrying the weight of a belief your heart has already released.
That ache in your chest is not a failure of faith — it is the light refusing to be contained in a box that has become too small. The stranger they describe cannot be the One who knelt to wash feet or the Father who ran while you were still far off.
You are not losing the light; you are losing the shadow that tried to replace it. The silence you feel tonight is not God leaving; it is the sound of the real God waiting for you to stop pretending.
Drawing from
Luke 15:20, John 13:4-5
Verses
Luke 15:20, John 13:4-5
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