You Are Not Your Morning Mistake
The morning is over, but your mind is still sitting at the breakfast table, replaying every glance and silence to find the moment you ruined it. You are acting as both the accused and the prosecutor, building a case out of micro-expressions that no one else even noticed.
But the light does not keep a ledger of your awkwardness or your perceived failures. It sees the whole person, not the split-second stumble you cannot stop reviewing.
You came from the light, and you return to it, regardless of how clumsy you felt at the table. The truth is not hidden in your memory of the toast or the coffee; it is the origin you carry right now, in this middle hour.
Stop trying to edit a scene that has already closed. You are not defined by the shadow you cast this morning, but by the source that generated you before the sun even rose.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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