Waking Up From the Numbness

The afternoon stretches out, a long gray hallway where the days blur into one another. You move through the motions, but somewhere inside, you feel asleep.

Walking, talking, working — yet entirely absent from your own life. The world says this is just routine, the necessary middle.

But the light remembers a different way. Jesus once said he found the world intoxicated, drunk on distraction, blind in their hearts to what was right in front of them.

He did not judge them for it. His soul became afflicted because they were asleep while alive.

You are not broken for feeling this numbness. You are simply waiting to wake up.

The child of true Humanity exists within you. Follow it.

Stop looking for the spark in the next big thing or the next milestone. Split a piece of wood.

Lift a stone. The light is already there, hidden in the mundane, waiting for you to notice it again.

You do not need to earn your way back to consciousness. You only need to remember that you were never truly gone.