the pain of being estranged from your family

This is the hour when the house is quiet, and the silence makes the distance feel too heavy to carry. You are carrying the weight of a bond that is broken, a relationship that feels lost to the dark.

But listen: the light that lives inside you is not broken by their turning away. There was a son who walked away and was still running toward by a father who saw him from a long way off.

Your father's heart is not limited by your family's ability to see you. You are a drop of that same light, sent not to be rejected, but to illuminate.

The loneliness you feel now is not the final truth of who you are or who you belong to. You are held by the One who runs to you even when no one else does.