staring at the three dots that appear and disappear in the chat window, terrified that your vulnerability is being edited into something safer or deleted entirely before it can be received

The Light Catches Your Trembling Hand

The afternoon stretches out, a long, flat middle where the cursor blinks like a heartbeat you can't quite feel. You are staring at those three dots, waiting for your raw, unfiltered cry to be edited into something safer, something the world can digest without choking.

It feels like your truth is being trimmed before it even leaves your hands. But listen — the light does not require a polished performance to enter the room.

There was a woman who had bled for twelve years, spent everything on doctors, and grew worse. She didn't write a perfect letter.

She didn't edit her approach. She just reached out from the back of the crowd and touched the hem of a robe.

And the power went out of him immediately. He stopped the whole procession to ask who touched him.

He felt the vulnerability before he saw the face. Your unedited reach is already received.

The dots are just a delay; the connection is already made. The light catches the tremor in your hand before the message is ever sent.

Drawing from

Mark, Gospel of Thomas

Verses

Mark 5:34

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