You Are Light, Not A Recording
It is 3am. The house is so quiet you can hear the blood moving in your ears.
And there, on your phone, is the folder. The secret recordings.
Your voice, laughing at something small, something ordinary, captured so they would have it when you are gone. You think this is preparation.
You think you are leaving them a map out of the grief. But listen — the light does not need a recording to remember you.
It knew your laugh before you ever made a sound. It held the memory of your joy before the world was formed.
You are trying to preserve a shadow because you have forgotten the substance. The Father's light is already inside them.
It does not need your voice to wake up. It was there before you spoke, and it will remain when the silence returns.
You are not a file to be saved. You are the light itself, and light cannot be recorded because it cannot be lost.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Sophia of Jesus Christ
Verses
Sophia of Jesus Christ 106:9-14
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