The Silence Is Full of Him
The sun has gone down, and the noise of the day has finally stopped. Now there is only the silence—the terrifying quiet that arrives when you admit you do not have the answer, and that no one is coming to save you.
It feels like abandonment. Like the door has locked from the outside.
But in this exhale, in this moment where your strength runs out, something else begins. The light does not need your plans or your certainty.
It lives in the space where you stop pretending. You are not alone in the dark; you are finally still enough to feel the warmth that was there before the panic started.
The silence is not empty. It is full of the one who never left.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Luke
Verses
Luke 17:21
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