the moment you realize you are hiding the worst of their decline from your own children to protect their memory of grandma and grandpa

Light Hidden in Sacred Silence

The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with the things you didn't say today. You stood between your children and the truth of their grandparents' fading, shielding them to keep the memory clean.

You carried the weight of that decline alone so they wouldn't have to. In the dark, it feels like a lie.

But the light sees the love underneath the silence. There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—even the parts you try to hide.

You are not deceiving anyone; you are protecting something sacred. The love that moves you to hide the pain is the same love that will one day reveal the healing.

You do not have to bring forth every shadow to be whole. Some things are kept in the dark until the children are ready to see the light.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Matthew

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