hearing their laugh in a crowded room and turning to share the joke with them, only to find empty space where they should be standing

Holy Ground Where They Once Stood

The room is loud, full of voices that aren't theirs, and then you hear it—a laugh that sounds exactly like the one you're missing. Your body turns before your mind can catch up, ready to share the joke, ready to meet their eyes.

And there is only air. Empty space where a person used to stand.

The gathering dark makes that gap feel wider than the whole room. But the light does not flinch from empty spaces.

It sees the hollow place and calls it holy ground. You are not turning into nothingness; you are turning toward a presence that has not left.

The love that lived between you is not gone; it has simply changed its shape.

Drawing from

John 8:10-11, Gospel of Thomas 70

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