Love Lives in the Silence Left Behind
The house is quiet now, and the voice you are holding onto feels like it is slipping through your fingers. You panic that if you cannot hear the exact tone anymore, the person is gone for good.
That the fading memory is a second death. But listen — the light does not live in the echo.
It lives in the space the echo leaves behind. There is a love that came into the world to restore every nature to its root, to the place where nothing is ever truly lost.
You are not losing them by forgetting the sound. You are being invited to hear them in a deeper key.
The voice was just the vessel. The love was the content.
And love, once given, cannot be un-given. The silence you fear is not an empty room.
It is the place where the real presence begins to speak.
Drawing from
Gospel of Mary, Luke
Verses
Gospel of Mary 4:28-29
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