The Light Working in Your Silence
The afternoon stretches out, a long, flat line of noise where you wonder if your silence is just a hollow space waiting to be filled. You feel empty because the world demands a performance you cannot give right now.
But there is a difference between the silence of absence and the silence of depth. The light does not shout to prove it exists; it simply is, like the sun that shines whether you look at it or not.
That quiet you feel is not a void—it is the space where the light is working while you are too busy to notice. You are not empty.
You are full of a presence that does not need to speak to be real.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
Verses
Thomas 77, John 1:5
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