The Light Waits for Your Honest Whisper

The house is quiet now, and the words you need to say are stuck behind your teeth. You are afraid that if you speak your true need for connection, the silence will only get heavier.

You rehearse the sentence a thousand times, but the fear of being too much, or too needy, keeps your mouth shut. There was a man lying beside a pool for thirty-eight years, waiting for someone to help him into the water, too proud or too afraid to ask until the light stood right in front of him and asked, 'Do you want to get well?' He finally admitted his isolation: 'I have no one to put me into the pool.' That admission was the first step toward standing up.

The light does not wait for you to be strong enough to speak. It waits for you to be honest enough to whisper.

Your need is not a burden that pushes the light away. It is the very thing that draws it near.

Speak the need, even if your voice shakes.