Your Silence Is Not Rejection
The house is quiet, and you are terrified that your silence sounds like a wall to the people waiting for you. You think they are interpreting your stillness as rejection, as a turning away, as coldness.
But in this deepest hour, the light does not speak to explain itself. It simply is.
There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world even when the mouth is closed. Your silence is not an absence.
It is the space where the root of your nature is resolving back into the source, undisturbed by the need to perform. The people who love you are not waiting for a speech.
They are waiting for your presence, which is already there, filling the room. You do not need to bring forth words to be known; you need only to let the light that is already within you shine without the filter of anxiety.
The terror says you are failing them. The truth says you are holding the room together by simply remaining.
Close your eyes. The light is not misread.
It is felt.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 24, Gospel of Mary 4:22-26
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