the quiet panic that your grief is fading because you can no longer summon the sharp, specific details of their voice

Hearing Love Without Ears

The panic comes when the specific pitch of their voice slips away, leaving only a hollow echo where a person used to be. You fear that forgetting the sound means losing the love.

But the light does not live in your memory's ability to replay the past. It lives in the silence that remains.

There is a spirit that gives life, and it is not bound by the fading details of what you can recall. The voice you miss was only the vessel.

The love it carried is the water that still fills you. You are not losing them.

You are learning to hear them without ears.

Drawing from

2 John, John

Verses

2 John 1:2

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