The Light Waits When You Stop Pretending
The day is ending, and you feel the heavy silence of having done this all before. The motions are familiar, but the feeling is gone.
You are moving through the dark like a ghost in your own life. But listen — there is a light that shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
It does not need your enthusiasm to survive. It simply is.
You do not have to manufacture a spark to be seen. The light is already there, waiting for you to stop pretending and just be.
The numbness is not the end of your story; it is the quiet space where the real thing begins again.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 1:5
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