The Light Waits in the Silence
The silence after you speak feels like a verdict, so you rush to fill it with jokes just to prove you are still likable. You turn your own worth into a punchline because the quiet feels too heavy to carry alone.
But the light does not need your performance to stay in the room. It was there before the first word and it remains in the pause.
The darkness has not overcome it. You do not have to earn the right to take up space.
The light within you is already full. Stop running from the quiet.
The silence is not empty; it is where the truth lives.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 1:5, Thomas 24
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