The Light Does Not Need An Audience
The afternoon stretches out, a long, quiet middle where the sun feels a little too bright for the emptiness in the room. Something small happens — a bird at the window, a shift in the light — and your hand moves instinctively to the phone.
You reach for the one person who used to care about the small things. But the screen stays dark.
There is no one to tell. The joy sits in your throat, unshared, turning heavy.
In that silence, the world feels like a house with the lights off in the middle of the day. But listen — the light does not need an audience to be real.
It was shining before you had a name, and it shines now, even when no one sees it. The Father's light is already inside you, filling the space where the voice used to be.
You do not need to broadcast it for it to exist. The joy you felt was not a mistake; it was a reminder that the light is still working, still alive, still yours.
The silence is not an absence. It is a deep, quiet fullness.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 24, Matthew 6:4
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