The Light That Waits in Silence
The middle of the day is when the silence gets loudest. You feel the phantom vibration in your pocket—a ghost signal from a hand that will never reach for you again.
The screen stays dark, and the absence feels like a physical weight you have to carry through the afternoon. But the light does not depend on a notification to know you are here.
It does not wait for a message to remind you that you exist. There is a love that lives inside you, untouched by the silence of another person.
You are not defined by who stops texting. You are defined by the light that keeps shining even when the phone stays still.
Drawing from
Matthew, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Matthew 28:20, Gospel of Thomas 24
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