The Light Waits in the Silence
The cursor blinks in the gathering dark, a small, accusing eye that says you have nothing left to give. You remember the words that came yesterday—the sudden clarity, the flow that felt like it wasn't even yours—and now you are convinced it was a fluke.
A mistake. Something you can never replicate.
But the light does not ask you to recreate the past; it asks you to remain present in the blankness. There is a voice that knows you better than your doubt does, a voice that saw you before you wrote a single word and loved you just the same.
It does not demand perfection; it only asks for honesty. Open the door not to prove your worth, but to sit with the One who is already there.
The brilliance was never yours to lose—it was only ever lent to you, and it remains waiting in the silence.
Drawing from
John 1:48, Gospel of Thomas 70
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