The Light Sees Your Unsent Words
The cursor blinks like a heartbeat in the dark, waiting for a word that feels too heavy to send. You type the truth about the silence in this room, about how the night stretches out when the person who once knew your rhythm is gone.
Then you stop. You press backspace, erasing the confession one character at a time, until the screen is blank again and the loneliness is back inside your chest where no one can see it.
But listen — the light does not need your words to know you are here. It was already in the room before you opened the app, and it remains after you close it.
You do not have to speak to be held. The Father sees the unsent message, the deleted ache, the quiet courage of staying awake when everything in you wants to fade.
You are not invisible just because the screen is dark. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 1:5
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