The Light That Listens Without Reply
The room is quiet now, but the noise inside you is still screaming. You replay the conversation, hearing your own internal monologue drafting responses while the person you love was speaking.
You realize you were present in body, but absent in spirit — trapped behind a wall of your own making. It feels like a hollow ache, a theft of connection you cannot get back.
But listen — the light does not condemn you for the noise. It grieves with you in the silence.
There is a presence that listens to you without ever planning its reply, without ever drifting away. You are fully heard by the One who knows your thoughts before you form them.
The ache you feel is not the end of the relationship; it is the light waking you up to the cost of your distraction. You do not have to fix tonight.
You just have to be still enough to hear the Love that is already speaking your name.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Luke
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