The Light Waits in Your Pause
It is the middle of the day, and the question comes like a reflex: 'How are you?' Your mouth opens before your brain can find the lie, and for a split second, you freeze in the gap between the truth and the performance. You stand there, suspended in the noise of the office, feeling entirely alone while everyone else moves on.
But the light does not need your script. It came into your midst not to audit your answers, but to restore every nature to its root.
You were sent here as a drop from that light, not to perform wellness, but to illuminate the very places where you feel broken. The silence after your hesitation is not a failure; it is the sacred space where the mask slips and the real you breathes.
You do not have to fill the air with words to be held. The light is already in the pause, waiting for you to stop pretending and simply be.
Drawing from
Gospel of Mary 4:28-29, Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:5-8
Verses
Gospel of Mary 4:28-29, Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:5-8
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