The Light Waits in Your Silence
The afternoon stretches long, a quiet room where you rehearse words that will never leave your lips. You know the script by heart—the apology, the explanation, the plea—yet you also know it won't change their mind.
So the speech stays trapped in your throat, a heavy stone you carry through the middle of the day. But listen.
What you are looking for has already come, even if you do not recognize it. The light is not waiting for your perfect sentence to arrive.
It is already here, in the silence between your fear and their refusal. You do not need to fix what is broken to be held.
The truth sets you free not by changing them, but by releasing you from the need to be heard.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 51, John 8:32
Verses
John 8:32
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