The Light You Cannot Delete
The cursor blinks in the dark, waiting for you to decide how much of yourself can survive the night. You highlight the paragraph—the one that actually tells the truth about the ache in your chest—and you press delete.
It feels like safety. It feels like survival.
But in the silence that follows, the room feels heavier. The mask is back in place, and you are alone again behind it.
You erased the words because you were afraid they would reveal who you actually are. Yet the light that lived in those sentences did not vanish when you backspaced.
It cannot be deleted. It was there before you typed the first word, and it remains after the screen goes black.
The truth you tried to hide is still glowing inside you, untouched by your fear. There is a version of you that no algorithm can scrub and no darkness can overwrite.
The Father sees the draft you were too afraid to send, and He calls it holy.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
Verses
Matthew 10:26
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