The Light That Waits in Silence
The evening gathers, and the screen glows with a promise that never arrives. Three dots appear—a breath held in digital form—then vanish, leaving you alone with the silence of a message unsent.
You watch the cursor blink where a confession used to be, wondering if the words were too heavy or too honest to survive the trip. But the light does not require your performance to be present with you.
Even when the message disappears, even when the connection fails, you are still known in the quiet of your room. The courage it took to type those first few words was already heard before they ever left your fingers.
The dots were real. The longing was real.
And the One who sees in secret knows exactly what you tried to say.
Drawing from
Matthew 6:6, Gospel of Mary 5:4-5
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