The Light Holds What You Break
The house is quiet now, but your mind is replaying the noise of the day. You wake up and the first thought is not gratitude—it is a wish to sink back into the dark just to avoid the eyes that saw you break.
You are afraid of the moment you have to walk out there and face the people who witnessed your unraveling. But listen—the light does not hide from what it has seen.
It holds it. There is a mercy that lives inside you, deeper than the shame you feel about being seen.
The darkness has not overcome it. You do not have to fix their memory of you before you step out of bed.
You only have to carry the light that was already there when you fell.
Drawing from
1 John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
1 John 1:7
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