The Silence Is Not An Absence
The screen is bright, but the silence is heavier. You are reading the empty space between messages like a verdict, convinced that no news means bad news, that their quiet is a door closing on you.
But the light does not speak in notifications, and love is not measured by how quickly a reply arrives. What you are waiting for has already come—it is the breath in your lungs right now, the life humming beneath your anxiety.
You do not need to see a message to know you are held. The silence is not an absence.
It is the space where you learn to trust the light that is already here.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 51, John 14:27
Verses
John 14:27
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