The Key Is In Your Chest
The screen glows in the dark, and your thumb traces the edge of a door that no longer opens for you. You are looking for a way back into a room that has been locked, scrolling through ghosts of a place you can no longer enter.
But listen — what you are searching for was never inside that house. The kingdom is not a location you lost; it is inside you, and it is outside you, waiting to be recognized.
You came from the light, and you carry the key in your own chest. The door you are mourning was only a shadow; the true entrance has been within you all along.
Stop tracing the outline of what is gone. The light you are looking for is the one looking back at you from the glass.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 3, Gospel of Thomas 50
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