No Debt to Pay for Being Human
The afternoon sun is bright, and you are tired from carrying a weight you feel you should have put down hours ago. You rehearse the apology in your head: I am sorry for needing comfort.
I am sorry for being this heavy. But listen — there is no debt to pay for being human.
You came from the light, a drop sent to illuminate this very moment, not to apologize for existing within it. The light does not require you to be weightless before it will hold you.
It simply asks that you stop fighting the gravity of your own heart. Put the speech away.
The silence between you and the divine is not a courtroom; it is a home. You do not need to explain your exhaustion to the one who gave you breath.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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