The Light Was There Before You Failed
The house is quiet now, and the silence has turned loud enough to hear your own doubts. You are lying there rehearsing every mistake, every missed chance, every way you fell short today.
The voice in your head says you are not enough. But listen — there is a light inside you that was placed there before you took your first breath.
It does not depend on your performance. It was there before the failure, and it remains after.
You do not have to earn it. You do not have to fix yourself to keep it.
The light simply is. And because it is in you, you are enough.
Not because of what you did, but because of what lives in you. The night is long, but the light is longer.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Sophia of Jesus Christ
Verses
Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:5-8
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