The Quiet Light That Darkness Cannot Overcome
The world asks you to wear a face that says you are fine, even while your hands feel empty against the weight of what is broken. You smile at the desk, you nod in the meeting, but inside you are screaming at the silence of power.
It feels like the darkness is too large, and your light is too small to matter. But the light does not need to be loud to be real.
It only needs to shine. There is a light within you that the darkness has not overcome, and it never will.
You do not have to fix the whole world today to be faithful. Just let the light be seen in the small things you do.
The courage to be gentle in a cruel system is where the truth hides.
Drawing from
John, 1 John
Verses
John 1:5, 1 John 2:8
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