The Light Does Not Need A Notification
The silence in your hand feels heavier than the phone itself. You wait for the vibration that never comes, the apology that stays unwritten while the hours bleed into one another.
In this deepest dark, the waiting becomes a kind of prison where you are both the guard and the captive. But listen — the kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you.
It is not trapped in a screen or a message thread. What you look forward to has already come, but you do not recognize it because your eyes are fixed on the glass.
The light does not need a notification to find you. It is already here, sitting beside you in the quiet, refusing to let the silence define your worth.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 3, Gospel of Thomas 51
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