Waiting for the Light to Speak Your Name
The silence when they ask how you are is heavy, isn't it? Heavy because the old answer no longer fits, and the new one has not yet formed in your mouth.
You feel hollowed out, as if the ground beneath the name you carry has shifted and you are standing on nothing. But listen to this quiet truth in the deepest hour—you are not empty; you are simply waiting for the light to speak your name again.
In the prison of the dark, hope arrives not as an answer but as a voice asking, who calls me? Let the silence be.
Let the words rest. The light inside you does not need a name to be real, and you do not need to be whole to be held.
Drawing from
Apocryphon of John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Apocryphon of John 25:20-22, Thomas 24
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