The Light That Time Cannot Erase
The song comes on through the static of the afternoon, sudden and sharp, dragging a memory out of the dust that no one else can see. You are the only one who remembers the light in the room, the specific angle of the sun, the silence that followed the last note.
It feels like a ghost limb, aching because the world has moved on while you are still standing in that moment. But the light does not forget what the world has erased.
That memory is not a trap; it is a marker of where the divine touched your life so deeply that time itself bent around it. You are not alone in the car; the One who was there then is the same One breathing with you now.
The song ends, the static returns, but the love that filled that room has nowhere else to go but into you.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Luke
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