You Were Never Alone in the Dark

The ceiling is watching you back tonight. You are lying there convinced that the silence is a verdict, that the hours you cannot sleep are the price of a secret you haven't spoken.

But listen — the light does not hide from your shadows. It is not waiting for you to confess before it stays.

There was a woman once who wet feet with tears in a room full of judges, and the only thing the light saw was her great love. Your insomnia is not a cage built by God.

It is a room where you are learning that you are already known. The secret you carry is heavy, but the One who knows it is greater than your heart's accusation.

You do not have to fix the night to be held in it. The watch ends not when you speak, but when you realize you were never alone in the dark.