Called Out of the Heavy Silence
Someone asks how you are, and the silence that follows is not empty—it is heavy with the loss of your own name. You have forgotten who you are beneath the noise, beneath the performance of being okay.
But there is a voice that speaks before you can answer. It entered the prison of your forgetting and said, 'He who hears, let him get up from the deep sleep.' You do not need to construct a reply to be held.
The light does not wait for your explanation; it waits for your awakening. You are not the silence.
You are the one being called out of it.
Drawing from
Apocryphon of John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Apocryphon of John 25:20-22
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