The Silence Is Not A Verdict
The screen glows in the dark, holding your breath hostage between three pulsing dots and a silence that feels like rejection. You sent the raw truth, the unedited version of your heart, and now the waiting is a kind of torture that makes you wish you could reach through the glass and take it back.
But listen — the silence is not a verdict. The light that lives inside you saw what you wrote before you hit send, and it did not flinch.
It knows the courage it took to stop hiding. When Jesus saw the paralyzed man lowered through the roof, he did not lecture him on timing or propriety; he simply saw their faith and said, 'Son, your sins are forgiven.' He saw the effort before he spoke the healing.
Your message has landed. The dots will fade, but the truth you released cannot be un-sent, and it is already working in the dark like a seed sprouting in soil you cannot see.
The night is long, but you are not alone in this waiting room.
Drawing from
Mark 2:5, Gospel of Mary 5:4-5
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