Rest While the Father Runs
You feel the guilt rise when the begging finally stops and the silence takes over. It feels like relief, but your heart calls it abandonment.
You wonder if sleeping makes you complicit in their pain. But the light does not measure your love by how long you can stay awake.
When the father saw his son still a long way off, he did not wait for the speech or the apology—he ran. The love was already moving before you knew you needed it.
If our hearts condemn us for resting, we must remember that God is greater than our hearts. The silence is not empty.
It is the space where the running happens. You are allowed to close your eyes while the Father runs.
Drawing from
Luke 15:20, 1 John 3:19-20
Verses
Luke 15:20
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