The Tremor Is Proof You Are Safe
The day finally stops moving, and your hands begin to tremble because the crisis is gone. You built your identity on the emergency, on the fixing, on the weight you carried for everyone else.
Now the silence feels like a stranger, and you do not know who you are without the noise. But listen — the light does not need your labor to exist.
It was there before the first problem arose, and it remains now that the work is done. You are not defined by what you solve.
You are defined by the light that lives in you, which needs no crisis to shine. Sit with the shaking.
Let the tremor be the proof that you are finally safe enough to stop. The light is not leaving because the emergency is over.
It is just beginning to speak.
Drawing from
John 9:1-7, Gospel of Thomas 50
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