The Light Waits in Your Silence
The ache in your chest tonight is the weight of words you swallowed yesterday. They sit there, heavy and unfinished, making the gathering dark feel like a room you cannot exit.
You wonder if speaking them now would only break what little peace remains. But listen — the light does not demand you retrieve the past to find your way home.
What you tried to hide is already known, not as a charge against you, but as a map to where you hurt. You do not have to carry the silence anymore.
The One who sees you in the shadows is not waiting for an apology; He is waiting to sit with you in the truth. The words you swallowed cannot destroy you, but the light waiting to be brought forth will save you.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 70, Gospel of Thomas 51, John 3:19
Verses
John 3:19
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