The Light Buried in Your Pain
The house is quiet, but the story inside you is loud. You hold it close, terrified that speaking it will tear open the wound for everyone who loved the one who died.
You think your silence is a shield. But the kingdom is not a distant place you travel to after the grief ends.
It is inside you right now, even in this dark hour. What you are waiting for has already arrived—the light is here, buried in the very pain you are trying to hide.
When you finally speak, you do not drag your loved ones back into the dirt. You bring them into the light that was there all along.
The story does not reopen the wound; it reveals the healing that has been happening in the dark.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 3, Gospel of Thomas 51
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