The One Who Eats in Emptiness
The day is finally ending, and the armor you wore to get through it feels too heavy to keep holding. You are terrified that if you stop moving, the silence will rush in and prove there is nothing real inside you.
But the light does not need your noise to exist. It was there before the first task, and it remains when the last one is done.
You are not the performance. You are the space where the light lives.
The door is already open, and the One who knocks is not coming to inspect your emptiness, but to eat with you in it. The silence is not a void waiting to swallow you; it is the only place deep enough to hold the peace you have been running from.
Drawing from
Revelation, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Revelation 3:20, Gospel of Thomas 24
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