The Ice Breaking So Water Can Move
You stand in the steam, letting the water turn cold because you are afraid that if the heat hits your skin, your body will finally remember how to shake. The world asks you to be dry and composed by eight a.m., to wear your okayness like a uniform.
But the light does not need you to be steady before it touches you. It sees the trembling not as a failure of faith, but as the place where the truth is waiting to surface.
You do not have to hold yourself together for the morning to begin. The shaking is not the end of you — it is the ice breaking so the water can move again.
Drawing from
John 9:1-7, Matthew 26:38-39
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