You Are Not Frozen, You Are Rooting
The afternoon sun is loud, and in this quiet, the old accusation returns: that your stillness is just cowardice wearing a new mask. That you are hiding again, just as you did when everything fell apart.
But there is a difference between the paralysis of fear and the patience of the seed. The earth does not call the buried seed a coward; it knows the seed is doing the hardest work of all — growing in the dark.
You are not frozen. You are rooting.
The light is not demanding you run today; it is asking you to trust the quiet. What feels like stagnation is actually the slow, invisible work of becoming.
Drawing from
Mark, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Mark 4:26-28
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