The Sacred Space of Becoming
The cursor blinks in the empty box, a steady rhythm against the silence of the afternoon. You type the words you need to say, then delete them, then type them again, only to erase everything once more.
The hesitation is not because you don't know what to say, but because you realize they wouldn't recognize the person you are now. The gap between who you were when you last spoke and who you are in this quiet moment feels too wide to bridge with a simple message.
But the light that reshaped you is the same light that has been walking beside them this whole time, even if they haven't noticed it yet. You do not need to explain the journey to be understood by the One who formed it.
The silence of the unsent message is not a failure of connection; it is the sacred space where the new self learns to breathe without permission.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, 2 John
Verses
2 John 1:3
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