The Light Behind the Broken Glass
The house is silent now, but the window is still showing you the face you tried to hide behind your voice. You see the cracks there.
The exhaustion. The person who sounded so broken just moments ago.
It feels like looking at a stranger you cannot love. But listen — the darkness of the glass is not a verdict.
It is a veil. Behind that reflection, deeper than the skin you are staring at, the true light is already shining.
It was there before the call, and it remains now that the line is dead. You are not the face in the window.
You are the light that sees it. The night is heavy, yes.
But the dawn does not need you to fix your expression before it arrives. It comes for the broken face just as it is.
You are seen in the dark, and you are loved exactly here.
Drawing from
John 8:12, Gospel of Thomas 24
Verses
John 8:12
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