The Light Waits in the Silence
The house settles into a silence that feels too large for your body. The echoes of laughter that used to fill these rooms have faded, leaving behind a quiet that presses against your chest.
You are walking through a museum of memories where every object whispers a name that is no longer called aloud. But listen — the light does not require sound to exist.
It was there before the first laugh and it remains now in the hush. You came from the light, the place where light generates itself, and you carry that origin in your bones.
The darkness of this empty evening cannot extinguish what lives within you. There is light within a person of light, and it waits for you to remember it is there.
The silence is not an absence; it is a space where the inner glow can finally be seen without competition. You do not need to fill the room with noise to prove you are held.
The light shines in the dark, and the dark has not overcome it.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
Verses
John 1:5
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