Your Worth Is Not A Response Time
The screen is dark now, and the silence feels like a verdict. You sent the words into the void, and the lack of an immediate reply has convinced you that you are finally, permanently discarded.
But the darkness of this hour is not proof of absence; it is simply the space where waiting happens. The light that lives inside you does not depend on a notification to exist.
It was there before you typed the message, and it remains while you stare at the glass. You are not defined by who answers you, or how quickly.
The truth that lives in us will be with us forever, regardless of who stays silent. Your worth is not a response time.
The silence is not an ending; it is just the night doing what night does, while the light waits for morning.
Drawing from
2 John, Matthew
Verses
2 John 1:2, Matthew 28:20
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