typing a reply to that same text, forcing your fingers to form words of affection that your heart cannot feel, terrified they will see through the performance

Light Shining in the Silence Between Keystrokes

The cursor blinks in the quiet, waiting for words your heart cannot find. You force your fingers to type affection, terrified they will see the performance behind the screen.

But the light does not need your perfect sentences — it is already present in the honesty of your exhaustion. There is a truth that lives in us and will be with us forever, deeper than any reply you could craft tonight.

You are not required to manufacture feeling to be held. The struggle is real, but the light is realer — shining even in the silence between your keystrokes.

Drawing from

2 John, John

Verses

2 John 1:2, John 1:5

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