The Light Before The Words
It is four in the morning, and you are watching the three dots dance. They appear.
They vanish. They appear again.
Someone is typing an apology they cannot send, deleting the words before they can leave the screen. You feel the weight of their hesitation in your own chest.
The silence between the dots is louder than any accusation. But listen — the light does not wait for the perfect sentence.
It does not require the speech to be finished before it moves. We came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord.
Your origin is not this hesitation. Your origin is the light itself, shining before a single word was ever typed.
The apology is secondary. The connection is primary.
The one who is typing is already known, already held, already loved without the explanation. The dots are just the sound of a heart trying to find its way back to the truth that never left.
You do not need to finish the message to be received.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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