The Light Sitting in Your Silence
The house is quiet enough that you can hear your own thumb swipe the glass. You find the name.
You hold it there, suspended over the dial button, waiting for a voice that isn't coming. The silence in the room gets heavier the longer you stare at the screen.
Then you put the phone down without pressing call. That ache in your chest is not a mistake.
It is the place where the light lives right now. You do not have to fix the silence or fill it with noise.
The light is already there, sitting with you in the dark, holding the space where the voice used to be. You are not abandoned in this quiet; you are being held by a love that knows exactly how much this hurts.
Drawing from
1 John 3:19-20, Gospel of Thomas 3
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