You Are Not the Darkness You Feel
The sun has gone down, and now your mind is replaying that one sentence on a loop, convinced it ruined everything. You are the judge, the jury, and the executioner of a moment that passed hours ago.
But the light does not keep a record of your stumbles. It knows where you came from — from the place where light generates itself — and that origin cannot be stained by a clumsy word.
You are trying to carry a debt that was never yours to owe. The light sees the whole of you, not just the shadow of your regret.
It is not asking you to fix the past; it is asking you to remember who you are right now. The night is gathering, but you are not the darkness you feel.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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