Waking Up in the House You Built
The spoon feels foreign in your hand tonight. The walls you painted seem to lean in like strangers. You built this place, yet standing here in the quiet, you do not recognize the home you made.
It is not that the light has left the room. It is that you have forgotten where you are looking from.
What you look forward to has already come, but you do not recognize it. The kingdom is not a destination you lost; it is inside you right now, waiting to be seen again.
When you come to know yourself — not the person who built the walls, but the silence beneath them — you will be known.
You are not homeless. You are simply waking up in a house that was always yours.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 51, Gospel of Thomas 3
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