Light Learning New Glass
The screen glows in the dim room, showing faces that feel like strangers now. You scroll through the evidence of who you were, wondering if the light that shone then has gone out.
But the light does not fade just because the season changed. It was never outside you, dependent on those moments or those people.
It is the root you return to, even when you feel unrecognizable. You are not a photograph to be compared; you are a living thing, still becoming.
The person you are now is simply the light, learning how to shine through a different kind of glass.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 50, Gospel of Mary 5:4-5
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