The Apology You Never Needed to Say
The afternoon hums with the noise of your own rehearsing. You are building a case against yourself for a crime no one else saw.
You script the perfect apology, the exact words to fix a fracture that exists only in your mind. But the light does not need your performance.
It saw you before you spoke, and it did not look away. You are trying to earn a forgiveness that was already given.
The truth is not hidden in your careful speech. It is right here, in this ordinary moment, waiting for you to stop talking and just be.
Drawing from
John 1:48, Gospel of Thomas 70
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