The Light Waits in the Quiet Hallway
The engine ticks as it cools, a metallic heartbeat slowing in the dark. You rehearsed the words a hundred times while the car was running, but now the silence of the house feels too heavy to break.
So you walk inside with the apology still stuck in your throat, and the moment dissolves into the floorboards. The darkness has not overcome it.
The light does not demand perfect timing or a flawless delivery. It was already there, waiting in the quiet of the hallway, long before you found the courage to speak.
You are that light, even when your voice fails you.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 1:5
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