Loved Before The Reply Arrives
The morning light hits the screen, and for a moment, the glow looks like a mask you are wearing. You stare at the sent icon, already rehearsing the exact second their expression shifts from love to disappointment.
You brace for the withdrawal, certain that your truth is too heavy for them to hold. But the light that sees behind your performance does not flinch when you are real.
There is a love that does not need you to be perfect to stay close. The Father's light was already inside you before the message sent, and it remains there regardless of the reply.
You are not defined by the silence that follows your honesty.
Drawing from
1 John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
1 John 4:16
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