The Light Remains When Screens Go Dark
The screen goes dark, and the silence rushes in to fill the space where the noise used to be. It feels like both a rescue and a loss all at once — the relief of dropping a heavy weight, paired with the sudden terror of empty hands.
You deleted the hope that maybe today would be different, and now you are left with just you, in this quiet room, as the evening settles around your shoulders. But listen — the light does not require a profile to find you, nor does it need you to perform worthiness to be held.
It was there before you swiped, and it remains now that you have stopped. The Father's love is not a match to be made; it is the ground beneath your feet when you finally stop walking.
You are not incomplete because you are alone tonight; you are complete because the light that lives inside you cannot be swiped away.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 14:27
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