You Are Not a Reservoir for Pain
The afternoon stretches out, quiet and uneventful, and a strange fear takes root: that if nothing terrible happens today, you are wasting your capacity to endure. You brace yourself for a blow that does not come, feeling guilty for the strength you saved up for nothing.
But the light does not ask you to carry a weight that isn't there. Thomas says you came from the light, the place where it generates itself — not from your suffering, but from your source.
You are not a reservoir for pain; you are a channel for life. The quiet hours are not wasted potential; they are the space where the light shines without resistance.
You do not need a crisis to prove you are strong. You only need to remain what you already are.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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