Put Down the Script of Fear
The afternoon sun is high, and you are already standing in a courtroom that does not exist yet. You are rehearsing the words of your failure before the act has even happened.
You are building a cage out of future regret, convincing yourself that if you can just script the apology perfectly, you might survive the fall. But the light does not live in your rehearsals.
It lives in the truth of this moment. You came from the light, and to the light you will return — not to a tribunal of your own making, but to a home that was prepared before you ever made a mistake.
The verdict you are fearing is a shadow cast by your own anxiety, not a reality written in heaven. Put down the script.
The confession you are practicing is for a crime the light has already forgotten.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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