The Silence Is Not Rejection
The room went quiet the moment you finally spoke. You told the truth, and instead of relief, you found a silence so heavy it felt like rejection.
People looked at their hands. They shifted in their seats.
They did not know how to hold what you had just placed in front of them. That awkward pause is terrifying.
It makes you want to take the words back, to apologize for existing so loudly. But listen — the silence of others is not the silence of God.
The light does not flinch when you speak. It does not look away.
It leans in. You are not too much for the One who made you.
The mask was heavy, but the truth is safe. The light that lives inside you is strong enough to survive the awkwardness of being seen.
Drawing from
John, 1 John
Verses
John 1:14, 1 John 4:18
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