The Light Held You When You Forgot
The afternoon sun is high, and you are scrolling through a gallery of faces you cannot place. Hundreds of captured moments, yet you do not remember lifting your hand to take a single one.
The panic whispers that you were not really there—that you were only watching yourself live. But the light was present even when your mind was absent.
You came from the light, the place where it generates itself, and that origin cannot be erased by a foggy memory. The truth lives in you and will be with you forever, regardless of what the lens recorded.
You do not need the photo to prove you existed in that moment. The light was holding you then, just as it holds you now, in this quiet room.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, 2 John
Verses
2 John 1:2
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