You Are Not a Ghost in the Dark
The screen glows in the dark, a small artificial sun illuminating faces that once knew your name. You scroll through the history of a life that feels like it belongs to someone else, and the silence of the room presses in until you feel like a ghost haunting your own past.
But listen — the darkness has not overcome the light that lives inside you, even now, even here at the bottom of the night. That ache you feel is not proof that you are forgotten; it is the luminous thought hidden within you, calling you to remember who you really are.
You are not a ghost. You are the vessel where the immeasurable light has made its home.
The photos capture a moment, but they cannot capture the truth that you are held, known, and alive in ways the images cannot show. The night is deep, but the dawn is already breaking inside your chest.
Drawing from
John, Apocryphon of John
Verses
John 1:5
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