The Silence Where Truth Begins
The afternoon asks its question. 'Are you okay?' And suddenly, the script you've been reciting all day dissolves on your tongue.
You stand there, empty-handed, with no lie left to offer. The silence that follows is not a failure.
It is the first honest thing you have said in hours. The light does not need your performance to find you.
It was already standing in the gap between your breath and your answer. You do not have to rebuild the mask right now.
Let it stay on the floor. The truth that lives inside you is stronger than the words you lost.
It knows you even when you cannot speak. Rest in the knowing that you are seen, not for what you say, but for what you are.
Drawing from
1 John 3:19-20, Gospel of Thomas 3
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