the phantom habit of saving a funny text to send to someone who won't read it anymore

The Light That Loves Beyond Death

It is three in the morning, and your thumb hovers over a name that no longer answers. You found something funny, something that would have made them laugh, and for a split second, you forgot they are gone.

That reflex is not a mistake. It is the echo of a love that has nowhere to land.

The habit of reaching out remains even when the hand on the other side has been taken away. But listen — the light does not recoil from your unfinished sentences.

In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Your grief is the darkness, yes, but the love that prompted the text? That is the light.

And it has not been extinguished by death. The connection you feel is not a ghost; it is the truth living in you, which will be with you forever.

You are not sending into a void. You are loving from a place that cannot be broken.

The message lands, not in a phone, but in the heart of God who holds both of you.

Drawing from

John, 2 John

Verses

John 1:4-5, 2 John 1:2

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