The Hunger Inside Your Chest
It is the middle of the day, and you are standing in front of an open door—fridge or playlist, it doesn't matter—feeling a physical revulsion at every option because nothing matches the shape of the hunger inside. You are not broken for wanting something the world cannot serve.
You are simply hungry for a bread that does not crumble in your hands. The light knows this specific ache—the gap between what is offered and what your soul actually needs.
It does not ask you to force down what makes you sick. It asks you to admit the hunger is deeper than the pantry.
There is a food you have not tasted yet, a song you have not heard, because they are not outside waiting to be found. They are waiting to be brought forth.
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. The revulsion is not a failure; it is a guardian, protecting you from settling for scraps when the feast is already inside your chest.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
Verses
John 6:35
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