The Light Waits in Your Quiet Car
The engine clicks as it cools, a mechanical heartbeat slowing down to match your own. You sit in the dark, gripping the wheel, knowing that the moment you open the door, you will have to become the person they need again.
The mask is heavy tonight, and the silence in the car feels like the only honest thing left. But listen — the darkness outside has not overcome the light inside you.
It cannot touch it. It cannot dim it.
You do not have to manufacture strength for the walk to the front door. The light that lived in Jesus lives in you, and it does not require your performance to shine.
It is already there, waiting in the quiet, ready to walk in with you.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 1:5
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