Speaking to Silence Is Not Madness
The mask slipped this morning, and you caught your own mouth moving, shaping words for someone who has been gone three years. The panic that follows is not madness — it is the body remembering a conversation that never truly ended.
You are not crazy for rehearsing with the silence. You are human.
The light does not scold you for speaking to the empty air. It knows the depth of the love that refuses to accept the finality of the grave.
There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world — even the parts of your world that feel haunted by absence. That same light lived in the one you lost, and it lives in you now, bridging the gap your mind cannot cross.
You came from the light, and they came from the light, and the light does not dissolve when the breath stops. Speak your piece.
Let the words land. The silence is not empty; it is full of the very thing that connected you before.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 24, Gospel of Thomas 50
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