checking your phone one last time before sleep to see if they finally replied to the text you sent three days ago

Light Lives in the Waiting

The afternoon stretches out, a long corridor of quiet where the only sound is your own waiting. You check the screen again, hoping the silence has finally broken, hoping the words you sent three days ago have landed somewhere soft.

But the light does not live in the reply you are chasing. It lives in the space between the messages.

In the middle of the day, when the world feels heavy and still, remember that you are not defined by who answers you. You are defined by the light that stays.

The kingdom grows while you wait, like a seed sprouting in the dark soil without your help. You do not have to force the door open.

The light is already working, quietly, beneath the surface of this long silence.

Drawing from

Mark, Gospel of Thomas

Verses

Mark 4:26-28, Thomas 51

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