replaying the silence after you asked for help, convinced the pause means they are disgusted by you

The Silence Is Holding Space For You

The silence after you asked for help feels like a verdict. You replay the pause, convinced it means you are too much, that the request itself was a mistake.

But the pause is not disgust. It is often just the distance between the question and the answer, stretched thin by the dark.

The light does not recoil from your need. It sees the one who was bound and broken, and it says simply: go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you.

Your story is not a burden to the light. It is the very thing it wants to hear.

You are waiting for a rejection that will never come. The silence is not empty; it is holding space for you to believe you are heard.

Drawing from

Mark 5:19, Gospel of Thomas 50

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