The Light Runs Toward Your Truth
The words rise in your throat, heavy and true, but you swallow them back down. You are certain that if you speak, the person you love will finally see the weight you carry and turn away.
In this darkest hour, the silence feels like the only thing holding you together. But listen — the light does not run from the truth.
It runs toward it. There was a father who saw his son coming home, covered in shame and rehearsing an apology, and he did not wait for the speech.
He ran. Before the confession, before the cleanup, he ran.
The light is not afraid of your story. It has already read the pages you are too terrified to show.
Speak, or stay silent, but know this: you are not too much for the love that holds you. The truth will not drive the light away; it will only let it in.
Drawing from
Luke, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Luke 15:20
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