Your Silence Is Not Complicity
The house is quiet now, and in this silence, a terrible fear has taken root: that your quiet is actually agreement. That by holding your true voice inside, you are letting the wrong things win.
But listen — the light does not wait for a shout to prove it exists. Thomas says there is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world even when it seems hidden.
Your silence tonight is not complicity; it is the deep soil where the seed is breaking open before it ever speaks. You are not failing the world by resting.
You are gathering the strength to bring forth what is within you, because that is the only thing that can save you. The wrong things only win if you believe the light has gone out.
It has not. It is simply waiting for you to speak from the quiet, not the panic.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas
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