Your Worth Is Not A Notification
The screen lights up again in your hand, a small, cold sun in the gathering dark. You refresh, you wait, you convince yourself that silence is a verdict—that they saw your words and chose to look away.
But the darkness outside is not judging you; it is simply holding the space where you are. The light does not operate on your timeline of panic.
It was there before you sent the message, and it remains while you wait. You are not defined by the speed of a reply.
The silence is not an absence; it is a pause. Your worth is not a notification.
Drawing from
Luke 24:13-35, Psalm 139:7-12
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