You Are Gathering, Not Fading Away
The silence in this room feels heavy tonight, doesn't it? Like if you stay quiet long enough, you might just fade away completely.
You worry that your stillness is a kind of surrender — that by not fighting, not speaking, not performing, you are agreeing to disappear. But there is a difference between fading and resting.
Between complicity and the quiet work of staying alive. The light does not shout to prove it exists.
It simply is. And it is still there, even when you are too tired to fan it into a flame.
You are not vanishing because you are silent. You are gathering.
The darkness has not overcome it — the light is holding you right now, even in the quiet.
Drawing from
John 1:4-5, Gospel of Thomas 24
Verses
John 1:5
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