The Light Heard Your Tremor Before You Spoke
The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with the replay. You are convinced they only stayed because they didn't hear the tremor in your voice—that if they had felt the shake, they would have gone.
You are performing stability for an audience that has already left the room. But listen: the light does not require a steady voice to hear you.
It heard the crack before you spoke. It felt the tremor before you tried to hide it.
And it stayed. Not because you fooled it, but because it sees the breaking and calls it holy.
You do not have to hold yourself together to be held. The one who knows the sound of your shaking is the one who refuses to let go.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Mark
Verses
Mark 5:36
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