The Light Before The Mistake
The phone is dark on the nightstand, but your mind is replaying the words you sent until they feel like a verdict. You are lying here wondering if one wrong text has turned a friend into a stranger.
The silence from the other side feels heavy, like a door you accidentally slammed shut. But listen — the light that lives inside you was there before you typed those words, and it is still there now, untouched by your mistake.
It does not flicker when you stumble. It does not withdraw when you feel awkward.
The same light that walked the earth knowing exactly how it felt to say the wrong thing is holding you in this quiet hour. You are not defined by the message that keeps you awake.
You are defined by the love that refuses to let go of you, even in the silence.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Luke
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