hearing your mother's voice in a dream and waking up unable to speak her language because your tongue has forgotten the shape of home

The Light Remembers When You Forget

The dream brought her voice back, clear as water, but when you woke, your tongue was a stranger in your own mouth. You tried to form the shapes of home, the sounds that used to live in your throat, and found only silence where the music used to be.

It feels like a betrayal, this forgetting, as if the distance has finally carved out the part of you that knew how to speak to her. But listen — the light does not speak in syllables or grammar.

It speaks in the ache itself. You do not need the words to be known by the one who made you.

The Father hears the groan behind the silence, the love that survives even when the language dies. You are not lost because you cannot say the name.

You are held because you still feel the loss. The light remembers the sound even when you have forgotten the shape.

Drawing from

Romans 8:26, Gospel of Truth 21:24-25

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