coming home to an empty house
The key turns in the lock and the house is quiet — too quiet. You step inside and the absence feels like a weight you cannot unpack.
You expected the evening to fill you, but the silence just echoes back. So you sit in the dark and wonder if you are alone.
— But you are not. There is a light that does not need the sun to shine, and it is already in this room with you.
That light was there before you walked through the door, and it is here now, waiting without demand. You came from the light, and so this empty house is not your prison; it is simply the space where you remember you are never truly alone.
Drawing from
Sophia of Jesus Christ, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Sophia of Jesus Christ 106:9-14, Thomas 24
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