Their Silence Is Not Your Verdict
The sun has gone down, and now the silence you caused is sitting in the room with you. You said no to protect your own spirit, but their quiet feels like a verdict: you killed theirs.
The darkness loves to twist a boundary into a burial. But listen — the light does not die when a door closes.
There is a truth that lives in us and will be with us forever, untouched by anyone's disappointment. Their silence is not the end of their light; it is just the space where they must find their own footing again.
You did not extinguish them. You simply stopped feeding the fire that was burning you.
The gathering dark is lying to you about the cost of your honesty. The light in them is waiting for the morning, and it is still burning in you.
Drawing from
2 John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
2 John 1:2
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