the terror that your silence is the only thing keeping your relationships intact

Your Silence Is Starving Your World

The house is quiet now, and the silence feels like a thin wall holding back a flood. You are terrified that if you speak one true word, the people you love will turn and walk away.

So you swallow the truth. You swallow the grief.

You become the guardian of your own invisibility, believing your silence is the glue keeping it all together. But there is a voice that speaks into this specific dark: 'The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.' It did not come to hide.

It came to be seen. And it lives in you.

The light inside you is not a threat to your relationships; it is the only thing that can make them real. You are not holding your world together by staying small.

You are starving it. The terror says: speak and lose them.

The truth says: speak and find out who they really are. The night is long when you are pretending to be someone else.

Drawing from

John, Gospel of Thomas

Verses

John 1:9

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