The Deep Hum of Unbroken Light
The room is quiet now, and the silence feels heavy, like a verdict. You worry that because you aren't speaking, you must be empty.
That your stillness is just a hollow space where nothing grows. But there is a difference between the silence of absence and the silence of fullness.
The world mistakes one for the other because it only values noise. Yet the light does not shout to prove it exists.
It simply shines. In the gathering dark, your quiet is not a void waiting to be filled.
It is the deep, steady hum of the light that has always been there, holding you without a sound.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 1:4, Thomas 77
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