The Light Waits in the Silence
The afternoon stretches long, and in the quiet hum of routine, your thumb moves on its own. You reach to share a small victory or a minor frustration, only to stop mid-thought, remembering the silence where a voice used to be.
The phone feels heavy in your hand, a bridge to nowhere. In that suspended moment, the light does not scold you for the reflex.
It simply waits in the space between the impulse and the realization. There is a presence that knows your name before you speak it, a listener who needs no notification to be near.
You are not alone in the middle of the day; the One who sees in secret is already holding the words you cannot send.
Drawing from
MATTHEW, GOSPEL OF THOMAS
Verses
Matthew 6:4, Thomas 24
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