Trusting the Ground When Walls Fall
The house is quiet now, and the silence feels heavy with everything you are no longer carrying. It is terrifying to stand here, with the old structures gone and the new ones not yet built, holding a freedom that feels more like falling.
You are afraid that without the walls you knew, you will disappear into the dark. But listen — the darkness has not overcome the light that lives inside you.
It never could. That light was there before the fall, and it is here now, steady and unbroken, waiting for you to stop looking for what used to be.
You do not need to rebuild the old house. You only need to trust the ground beneath your feet.
The night is not a place to hide; it is the space where the true self finally wakes up.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 1:5
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