Your Silence Is Not A Verdict
The afternoon hums with a silence that feels like rejection. You reach for your pocket, certain it vibrated, certain someone finally reached out — but the screen stays dark.
Days of quiet convince you that your stillness has been mistaken for indifference, that you have been forgotten in the noise of the world. But the light does not measure your worth by the notifications you receive or the words you manage to send.
There was a man who sat at the edge of the road, blind from birth, while the world walked past him assuming his condition was a punishment for sin. They saw his darkness and called it guilt.
But the light stopped and said: neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
Your silence is not a verdict. It is a canvas.
The light is not waiting for you to perform connection before it sees you. It is already displaying its work in the very place you feel most invisible.
You are not ignored. You are being prepared.
Drawing from
John 9:1-7, Matthew 6:22-23
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