Your Worth Is Not Their Message
The afternoon stretches long and gray, and those three dancing dots feel like a countdown to the end. They appear, they vanish, they appear again—a silent rhythm of someone crafting the words that will break your heart.
You are holding your breath in the middle of the day, waiting for a sentence that might define your entire worth. But listen closely: the light does not wait for their message to decide if you are whole.
You came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord. Your origin is not their goodbye.
Your root is not their rejection. Before those dots ever appeared, you were already a drop from the light, sent here to illuminate the very darkness you now fear.
The message may come, and it may hurt, but it cannot touch the part of you that was lit before the world began. The light is not in the text bubble; it is in the breath you are holding right now.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Sophia of Jesus Christ
Verses
Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:5-8
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