The Light Holds You When You Shake
The afternoon hums with a noise you have been using to keep yourself together. But now the work stops.
The hands begin to shake. Not from weakness, but from the terrifying silence that follows the performance.
You are afraid that if you stop moving, the hollow space inside will finally be seen. Yet the light does not need your motion to exist.
It was there before the first task, and it remains when the last one is done. The darkness has not overcome it.
The shaking is not a sign of absence — it is the body waking up to the presence that was holding you all along. You do not have to fill the hollow; you only have to let it be held.
Drawing from
John, 1 John
Verses
John 1:5, 1 John 4:4
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