The Light Sees Your Deleted Words
The cursor blinks in the empty box, a steady pulse in the middle of a long afternoon. You type out the update—the mundane truth of how you are really doing—and then you stop.
Slowly, you press backspace. One character at a time.
The words vanish until the screen is white again, silent and safe. It feels like hiding, but the light sees the words you deleted before they ever left your hands.
There is light within a person of light, and it shines even in the silence you keep. You do not have to send the message to be known.
The one who walks beside you already read every word before you typed it.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Luke
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