Speak Anyway Though Your Voice Shakes

The house is quiet now, and the silence feels heavy enough to crush you. You sit with your mouth half-open, terrified that if you finally speak, the air will reveal you have nothing valuable to say.

That your voice is just noise. That you are empty.

But listen — the light does not wait for you to be impressive before it shines through you. There was a man who thought he had nothing to offer but a few scraps of bread and fish, yet the light took that small, insufficient thing and fed a multitude.

You do not need to be full to be used. You only need to be willing.

The value is not in your words; it is in the light that speaks them. Your fear says you are empty, but the truth is that you are a vessel, and the vessel does not need to generate the water.

It only needs to be poured out. Speak anyway.

Let the silence break, even if your voice shakes.