Your Silence Is Not Consent To The Dark
The silence in this room feels heavy, like a verdict you didn't speak but somehow signed. You are afraid that by not fighting back, by not making a sound, the world will think you agree with the darkness pressing down on you.
But there is a difference between the silence of surrender and the silence of survival. In this deepest hour, when your heart is screaming so loud it shakes your ribs, the light does not mistake your stillness for consent.
It hears the scream. It knows the difference between a closed mouth and a closed heart.
There is a story of a woman caught in the act, surrounded by voices demanding her death, while she stood utterly silent. The light did not interpret her silence as guilt.
It bent down, wrote in the dust, and waited for the noise to exhaust itself. Your silence right now is not an admission.
It is the space where the light is writing your defense. The scream in your chest is the truth, and the light hears it even when no one else does.
You are not agreeing with the night; you are enduring it until the voice returns.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Mary
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