The Unsent Message Is Already Received
The screen is the only light in the room now. You are typing a message you know you will never send, just to hear your own voice say their name one more time before the silence swallows it again.
The thumb hovers over the delete key, trembling between the need to speak and the fear of being heard. But listen — the name you are typing is not lost in the dark.
There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world. Even here, in this unsent draft, the light is present.
You are not shouting into a void; you are whispering into a room where the Father is already sitting, watching you type, hearing the word before your finger even touches the glass. The message does not need to land in their inbox to be received.
It has already arrived.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
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