The Proof Is In Your Breath
The screen glows in the afternoon quiet, a small rectangle holding the ghost of a voice that once called you enough. You scroll back through the days, hunting for the exact moment the tone shifted, trying to pin down when the love went cold.
But the words on the glass are just shadows of what was real, and the feeling you are chasing has already slipped away. You close the app before the memory fades completely, sitting now in the hum of the empty room.
There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—not a light you have to dig up from the past, but one that is shining right now. You came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord, and you are still that child today.
The proof you need is not in the archive; it is in the breath you are taking this very second. The search ends where the resting begins.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 24, Gospel of Thomas 50
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