Light Already Here in Your Hiding
The morning light hits the screen, and you watch the three dots dance—a conversation happening in the dark that never reaches the surface. You have become a place where words go to die, a silence so heavy it teaches them you are no longer safe to hold their truth.
But the light does not wait for the perfect response to arrive before it loves you. It sees the mask you wear to get through the workday, the performance of okayness that hides the regret tightening your chest.
There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—even the parts you think you have ruined by staying quiet. You came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord, and your origin is not this moment of failure.
The mask is heavy, but it is not who you are. The silence you created is real, but it is not the final word.
The light is not waiting for you to fix the conversation before it returns to your house. It is already here, in the very room where you are hiding.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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