The Light Does Not Need to Vibrate
The afternoon hums with a ghost sensation—a vibration against your thigh that never happened. Your body flinches, convinced the silence is a physical rejection, a sign that you have been forgotten by the world.
But the stillness is not an absence; it is a space where the light does not need to shout to be present. Jesus told the man he healed to go home and tell how much the light has done for him, not to wait for the next noise to validate his worth.
The phantom shake is just your nerves trying to manufacture a connection that already exists without movement. You are not waiting for a signal to begin; the signal is the quiet breath you are taking right now.
The light does not vibrate to prove it is there—it simply remains, steady as the ground beneath your feet.
Drawing from
Mark 5:19, Gospel of Thomas 77
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