the phantom vibration of a phone that never lights up because you're too afraid to send the real text

The Light Waits At Your Silence

The afternoon hums with a ghost—a vibration in your pocket that never comes because the message was never sent. You carry the weight of words typed and deleted, terrified that speaking the truth will break something fragile.

But the light does not wait for your perfect draft. It stands at the door of your silence, not to condemn the unsent text, but to sit with you in the ache of it.

There is a story of a woman who wept at the feet of the light, her tears saying what her voice could not, and he said her many sins were forgiven because her great love had shown. Your hesitation is not a barrier to the light; it is the very place where the light meets you.

You came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord, and you do not need to earn your way back to it with the right words. The silence you fear is already filled with a presence that knows the text before you type it.

Stop trying to be the one who has it all together. Just let the love you are holding show itself, however messily.

The thing you are afraid to send is already known, and you are already held.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Luke

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