The Father Runs While You Hide
This is the hour where the mask feels like the only thing holding you together. You are terrified that if anyone saw the real you—the broken, the messy, the afraid—they would turn and walk away.
So you stay silent. You stay hidden.
But listen. There is a love that does not need your performance to stay.
The Father runs to meet you while you are still covered in the dust of your worst mistakes. He does not wait for you to clean up.
He runs. The light inside you is not a fragile thing that shatters when exposed.
It is the very thing that makes you known. You do not have to earn the right to be seen.
You are already known by name.
Drawing from
Luke, John
Verses
Luke 15:20, John 10:14
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