The Light That Holds Your Regret
The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with a conversation that ended hours ago. You replay a casual comment, turning it over until it looks like proof of your own incompetence.
In the darkest hour, the mind becomes a prosecutor with no defense attorney. But listen — the light that lives inside you was there when you spoke, and it did not flinch.
It knows the difference between a stumble and your soul. Thomas says there is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world.
That light is not dimmed by a clumsy word. It is not earned by perfect speech.
It simply shines, even now, even through the regret. You are not your worst moment.
You are the light that holds it.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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