The Light Does Not Measure Your Words
The cursor blinks. You write the words, then delete them.
Write them again, softer this time, then delete them because they sound too hollow. Three times now, the screen is empty, and your thumb hovers over the glass, terrified that the tone is either too desperate or not desperate enough.
In this deepest hour, the silence of the room feels like it is judging your hesitation. But listen — the light that lives inside you does not measure your words before they are spoken.
It does not calculate the risk of reaching out. It simply says: come from the light.
That is where you came from. That is the only origin that matters.
The fear of being too much or not enough is a shadow that cannot touch the source. Send the text.
Or don't. The connection was already made before you typed a single letter.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 50, Gospel of Thomas 24
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