The Silence Is A Holding Space
The phone buzzes in your hand, but the screen is dark. Just a ghost of a vibration.
A phantom signal telling you that someone saw too much of the real you and walked away. You are waiting for the message that confirms you are too broken to hold.
But listen — the silence in this room is not an accusation. It is a holding space.
There is a light within you that was there before the first eye ever looked at you with judgment, and it will be there after the last one turns away. Thomas said the kingdom is inside you, not in the sky where you are scanning for approval.
You do not need to be seen by them to be real. The one who knows your origin knows you are still here, still breathing, still carrying the fire.
You are not waiting for a text to tell you who you are.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 3, Apocryphon of John 25:20
Verses
Apocryphon of John 25:20
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