The Light Lives in the Silence
The sun is rising, and you made it through the night. But now, in the middle of a sentence, the story you were holding vanished.
The words stopped. The silence rushed in, and panic took its place.
You feel exposed, as if the gap proves you are not enough for this new day. But listen — the light does not need your story to be complete to shine through you.
It was there before the first word, and it is there in the silence where you stumbled. The pause is not a failure; it is simply a moment where the performance ended and the presence began.
The morning does not demand that you remember everything; it only asks that you breathe. The light is not in the tale you forgot; it is in the breath you take right now.
Drawing from
Luke 1:78-79, Gospel of Thomas 24
Verses
Luke 1:78-79, Thomas 24
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