The Light Hears Your Deleted Words
The cursor blinks in the quiet room, waiting for a truth you are too afraid to send. You type out the confession of how much the silence hurts, letter by heavy letter, until the screen holds the weight of your whole day.
Then you pause. The fear rises.
And you begin to delete. Backspace, backspace, backspace—erasing the pain until the screen is blank again, as if admitting the hurt would make it real.
But the light does not need your words to know what is inside you. There is light within a person of light, and it shines even when the screen is dark.
You came from the light, and to that place you belong, whether you speak or stay silent. The confession you deleted was already heard by the One who placed the light there.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas
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