the specific terror that if you close your eyes to sleep, your mind will finally stop running its calculations and you will remember every single thing you've been too busy to feel

The Light Does Not Fear Your Memory

The afternoon hum is loud enough to keep the calculations running, to keep the grief at bay behind a wall of noise. But you know what waits when the machine finally stops — the moment your eyes close, the inventory begins.

The light does not fear your memory. It walked into the middle of your chaos and sighed before speaking peace.

That sigh means it has already seen the worst thing you are afraid to remember, and it did not turn away. You are not being punished by the silence; you are being invited to rest inside a love that is greater than your regret.

The darkness you expect is not strong enough to extinguish what lives in you.

Drawing from

Mark 7:34, 1 John 4:4

Verses

1 John 4:4

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