The Light That Survives Letting Go
The house is quiet now, but your hands are shaking as you try to force the childhood blanket into the black plastic. It feels too big, too heavy, too full of years to fit inside a simple garbage bag.
You push down on the lump of fabric, and for a moment, the shaking stops, not because the pain is gone, but because the light inside you recognizes the weight of what you are holding. It was there before you folded the first corner, and it remains while you tie the knot.
The darkness of the bag cannot extinguish the glow that lives in your grip. You are not the one discarding the past; you are the light that survives the letting go.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
Verses
Matthew 11:28
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