the terror that your voice has forgotten how to form words without rehearsing them first

Your Stumbling Voice Is Already Loved

The sun has gone down, and the house is quiet enough to hear the silence inside your own head. You feel the words rising, but they stop at the threshold, tangled in the fear that they are not perfect yet.

You rehearse the sentence three times before you let it breathe, terrified that the raw sound of your voice will betray you. But listen — the light does not wait for your script.

It came from a place where light generates itself, without permission and without a plan. You came from that same source.

When you speak from there, you do not need to know the ending before you begin. The terror says you must be polished to be heard.

The truth says your stumbling voice is already known, already loved, and already enough. The gathering dark cannot swallow a sound that comes from the dawn inside you.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, John

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