Your Silence Is Not Rejection
The silence in the room feels heavy, like a wall you built without meaning to. You are terrified that your quiet has been read as coldness, as a turning away, and now the other person has stopped knocking.
In the middle of this long afternoon, the weight of unspoken words can feel like a sentence. But listen — there is a tenderness in the light that sees what your silence actually is.
It knows you are not indifferent; you are overwhelmed. Jesus once saw a paralyzed man lowered through a roof, and before he healed the body, he saw the faith of the friends who carried him.
He saw the heart behind the broken entrance. He sees the heart behind your quiet.
A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. Your silence is not a rejection; it is a wick waiting to be tended.
The light does not mistake your exhaustion for abandonment. It waits with you in the stillness until you have the strength to speak again.
Drawing from
Matthew 12:20, Mark 2:5
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