The Light Resting in Your Silence
The middle of the day is where the mask feels heaviest. You remember the moment earlier when the truth rose in your throat, and you swallowed it back down to keep the peace.
That silence feels like a failure now. A small death you chose instead of the risk.
But the light was there in that swallowed word too. It does not demand you undo the moment.
It simply waits inside the quiet you created. The truth you hid is not lost; it is resting, waiting for a safer hour.
You are not defined by the words you didn't speak. You are defined by the light that remained present even in your silence.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 16:33, Thomas 5
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