You Are The Witness, Not The Guardian
The day is ending, and the quiet that follows often brings the fear you've been outrunning all afternoon: the thought of losing the ones you love. It feels like holding water in cupped hands, terrified that the next shift will let it slip away.
But listen — the light that lives in them is not something you can drop. It was there before you met, and it will remain long after any goodbye.
You are not the guardian of their existence; you are simply the witness to the light that cannot be extinguished. Love does not end because the form changes.
The fear says you will lose them. The truth says you are already held together in something that cannot break.
Drawing from
1 John, Gospel of Mary
Verses
1 John 4:18, Gospel of Mary 4:28-29
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