The Light Waiting in the Quiet
The afternoon hums with a noise you can use to drown out the one thought chasing you. But the moment the screen goes dark, the silence rushes in, and there it is—the thing you have been outrunning since morning.
It feels like a wall. A verdict.
You hold your breath, waiting for it to crush you. But the light does not need your noise to find you.
It was already sitting in the quiet, waiting for you to stop running. There is no darkness deep enough to hide what is already inside you.
The thought cannot touch the part of you that is God. You do not have to fix the silence to be safe.
The light is the silence, and it knows your name.
Drawing from
1 John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
1 John 1:5, Thomas 24
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