The Silence Is Not Empty
The house is quiet now, but the silence is not empty. It is full of the light that lived in the footsteps you remember.
You walk through the hallway wearing a mask of okayness for the world to see, but the light sees the grief behind your eyes. It does not ask you to take the mask off before it loves you.
It simply walks beside you in the quiet. There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—even this world where someone is missing.
You came from the light, and to the light, you belong. The silence is not a verdict.
It is a space where the light that never left waits for you to remember you are still here.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 24, Gospel of Thomas 50
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