The Light Waiting Under the Dashboard
The engine cuts out. The hum dies.
And suddenly, the silence is so loud it feels like a weight pressing against your chest. This is the moment the mask falls.
The performance is over. You are just you, sitting in the dark, with nowhere left to hide before you walk inside.
Do not rush to open the door. Sit in the quiet.
The light does not need you to be strong right now. It does not need the smile you wore all day.
It just needs you to be present. There is a truth living inside you that was there before the first lie you told to get through the morning.
Split the wood of this moment. Lift the stone of this silence.
The light is already there, waiting under the dashboard, in the stillness, in you. You do not have to manufacture peace.
You only have to stop fighting the quiet.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, 2 John
Verses
2 John 1:6
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