The Light Inside Your Unsent Drafts
It is late, and the screen is the only light in the room. You are rewriting the message again, trimming the desperation, editing the tone until it sounds like someone who doesn't care.
Then you delete it. Because they will never see it.
The silence in the house is loud enough to hear your own heartbeat. But notice this — the light does not need your performance to find you.
It is not waiting for the perfect words. It is already inside the quiet where you sit.
Thomas says the light is over all things — split a piece of wood, lift a stone, and it is there. Even here.
Even in the unsent draft. You do not have to earn the right to be held by deleting your own voice.
The truth that lives in you knows what you meant to say, even if the screen goes dark.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 77, 2 John 1:2
Verses
2 John 1:2
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