Do Not Let a Stolen Second Steal Your Day
The afternoon stretches out, a long gray corridor where you keep replaying that single second. The moment their eyes flicked to the clock.
The split-second impatience that you have now magnified into a verdict on your entire existence. You are building a prison out of a glance.
But the light does not measure you by the seconds you lost or the attention you failed to hold. It sees the whole room, not just the shadow of that moment.
There is a truth inside you that was placed there before the clock ever started ticking—a light that cannot be dimmed by someone else's hurry. Thomas said if you bring forth what is within you, it will save you; if you bury it under the weight of that one glance, it will destroy you.
Do not let a stolen second steal the rest of your day. The light is not watching the clock.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Mark
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