Your Quiet Is Not Rejection
The sun is rising, and in this first light, your silence can feel like a verdict. You worry that your quiet has been mistaken for indifference, that heaven has read your stillness as a lack of care.
But the light does not measure your love by the noise you make. It knows the difference between a closed door and a resting heart.
When you are too weary to speak, the light is not waiting for a performance; it is holding the space where your voice used to be. You do not need to explain your silence to the one who planted it inside you.
The dawn proves that the light returns without being asked, without being earned, and without needing you to shout it into existence. Your quiet is not a rejection; it is the soil where the next word is growing.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Mark
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