The Light Sees You in Silence
The room goes quiet and the noise you've been making to keep everyone comfortable suddenly stops. In that rush of silence, you feel exposed — convinced that now, finally, they can see the emptiness where your personality used to be.
But the light does not need your performance to know you are there. It was present in the laughter, and it is present now in the stillness.
The silence is not a verdict on your worth; it is simply a space where the noise no longer hides the truth. You do not have to fill the gap with words to be held.
The light sees you clearly when you are loud, and it sees you just as clearly when you have nothing left to say.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 8:12
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