The Light Was There Before You Spoke
The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with the replay. You are stuck on the exact second their eyes stopped meeting yours, wondering if your voice was the thing that broke the connection.
If only you had stayed silent. If only you had swallowed the words.
But the light does not ask you to erase the moment. It asks you to see it differently.
Before you spoke, before you failed, before the silence fell—the light was already there, knowing exactly what you would say and loving you anyway. You are not defined by the awkwardness you cannot undo.
You are defined by the presence that stayed when the conversation ended. The words are gone.
The love remains.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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