Shadows Cleaved

I was dredging up the old.

Dwelling upon the hurts I'd caused. The damage I'd done.

I was startled by Truth.

There on the path, shadows cleaved. Amidst the shadows, light cast a heart.

Truth spoke, “Light casts out the dark. Be done with shadows. I remember your sins no more.”

There was power in that heart-of-light. Shed blood power. Here was forgiveness, startling. Cleaving the darkness. Dispelling the doom.

God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 1John 1:5

Shadows have no substance. Neither do these dredged things.

I cast them away. And turn my face to the Light. Cleansed and whole.

I have become light to the world . Matthew 5:14