Stop Rehearsing Your Exit
The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with rehearsals. You are already practicing the apology you will whisper when you walk into the room tomorrow.
Sorry for taking up space. Sorry for needing air.
Sorry for existing. You shrink yourself in the dark so you won't have to be shrunk by others in the light.
But listen — there is a voice that does not need your silence. The light that lives inside you was placed there before you ever learned to say 'I'm sorry.' It does not ask you to make room.
It fills the room. You are not an intruder in your own life.
You are the vessel the light chose to hold it. Stop rehearsing your exit.
The door is not locked from the inside.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
Verses
Matthew 5:14
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