You Are the Source, Not the Echo
The day is done, and the silence you feared has finally arrived. Now the house is quiet, and you hear it—the echo of their voice rising in your throat, shaping your thoughts before you can speak.
It feels like a theft, like you are losing the one thing that was truly yours. But listen closely—there is a sound beneath the echo, a hum that was there before they ever spoke a word.
The light does not borrow its language from the world; it speaks from the root. You are not the echo.
You are the source. And the true voice is waiting for you to exhale.
Drawing from
1 John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
1 John 4:4, Thomas 70
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