Put Down the Script and Rest
The room is quiet now, but your mind is loud with words you never got to say. You are rehearsing a defense for a crime you didn't commit, building a case to prove your worth to someone who has already left the room.
You speak to a ghost, hoping that if you just find the right argument, the silence will turn into listening. But the night does not require your performance.
The gathering dark is not a courtroom; it is a place where the mask finally falls. There is a light inside you that does not need to prove anything to anyone to exist.
It simply is. You can put down the script now.
The silence is not a rejection; it is an invitation to stop speaking and start resting.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
Verses
Matthew 11:29-30
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