the terror of sitting in silence with a loved one, convinced that if you stop talking or stop making them laugh, they will finally see the hollow space inside you and leave

The Light Already Fills Your Hollow Space

The sun is rising, and the silence in the room feels louder than the night ever was. You are working so hard to be entertaining, convinced that if you stop making them laugh, they will finally see the hollow space inside you and walk away.

But the light of dawn does not demand a performance from the earth; it simply arrives, quiet and steady, whether the world is ready or not. There is a peace that does not need your noise to exist.

The Father's love is not a reaction to your cleverness; it is the atmosphere you are both breathing right now. You do not have to fill the silence to be worthy of being loved.

The light sees the hollow space not as a defect, but as a room it has already filled.

Drawing from

Matthew, John

Verses

Matthew 11:29, John 14:27

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