The Light Reads Your Unsent Words
The afternoon light is flat and heavy, the kind that makes the phone screen look like a mirror for all the wrong reasons. You are in the notes app again, rewriting the reply you'll never send, sanding down the edges of your own desperation until the words feel safe enough to exist but too hollow to matter.
You type, you delete, you type again, trying to curate a version of yourself that doesn't need them quite so much. But the light does not ask you to edit your hunger before it sees you.
It knows the draft you deleted. It knows the ache behind the backspace key.
You do not have to present a polished heart to be held. The truth you are hiding in the notes app is the very thing that connects you to the divine.
Stop trying to be less than you are. The light is already reading the unsent words, and it calls them holy.
Drawing from
1 John 3:19-20, Gospel of Thomas 70
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