The Silence Is A Holding
The silence in this hour feels heavy enough to crush a lung. You reach for the phone, certain it buzzed, certain the answer finally came.
But the screen stays dark. The message you sent hours ago sits there, suspended in the digital void, unread or ignored.
It feels like a verdict. Like you have been left alone in the dark with your own words.
But listen — the silence is not an absence. It is a holding.
The light does not need your notification to know where you are. It was there before you typed the first word, and it is here now, in the quiet, holding the space between your fear and the dawn.
You are not waiting for a sign that you are loved. You are the sign.
Drawing from
John 8:10-11, Gospel of Thomas 70
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