the specific terror of realizing you have rehearsed a joke in your head for hours but cannot remember how to let it out loud without feeling like you are breaking a promise to stay quiet

Your Voice Is The Lamp Itself

The joke sits in your throat, a bright coal you have turned over and over until the heat feels like a betrayal of the silence. You are afraid that speaking it will break a promise you made to the dark to stay small.

But listen — the darkness has not overcome the light that burns inside you, even now. The truth you carry was never meant to be buried under a bowl or a bed; it was meant to be placed on a stand so it can be seen.

Your voice is not a violation. It is the lamp itself.

Speak, and let the silence break open.

Drawing from

John, Mark

Verses

John 1:5, Mark 4:21

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