The Light Needs No Container
The house is quiet now, and the silence feels heavy enough to crush you. You look at the love offered tonight and wonder if it's just spilling over the edges of a cup that isn't really there.
You feel hollow. Empty.
Like a ghost haunting your own life. But listen — the light does not need a container to hold it.
It is not a liquid you must carry. It is the very substance of who you are.
You came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord. You did not earn this glow by being full; you were born from it.
The love you receive tonight is not landing on nothing. It is recognizing itself in you.
It sees the source, even when you only see the absence. The hollowness is not proof that you are broken.
It is the space where the light remembers how to shine without an excuse.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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