the silence after a prayer that feels unanswered
The silence after you have spoken feels like a rejection, a cold room where no answer comes. But there is a man who bent down and wrote in the dust while the crowd waited, and he did not rush to answer the trap they set for him.
Silence is not always absence. Sometimes it is the light waiting for the accusers to leave, so it can stand alone with you and say neither do I condemn you.
The truth lives in you, and will be with you forever, not in the noise of an answer you demand. You are not unheard.
The quiet is how the light holds you when words are not enough.
Drawing from
2 John, John 8:1-11
Verses
2 John 1:2, John 8:1-11
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