Light Unbroken by Shame

There is a terror that wakes you in these hours—the fear that your love has become something they will one day have to hide. That they will feel too much shame about your presence to ever let you in again.

But listen closely to the silence around you: the light that lives in them is greater than the story they will tell about you. It is greater than the fear, and greater than the weight you think you carry.

No one can snatch them from the love that already knows them, and no amount of shame can extinguish the light that was placed inside them before you ever drew breath. They may turn away for a season, but the light inside them cannot be broken by the darkness they think you represent.

You are not waiting for their permission to be loved. You are the place where the light remains, steady and unbroken, even when they cannot see it.