The Dawn Does Not Labor to Shine
The sun is rising, and your hands are still, and the panic says you are wasting the light. It says that if you are not building, you are breaking.
But look at the dawn—it does not labor to shine. It simply arrives.
There is a rest that is not laziness, but a deep, quiet trust that the light works even when your hands do not. You were made to carry the light, not just to manufacture it.
Split a piece of wood, lift a stone—the light is already there, waiting in the stillness you fear. You do not have to earn the morning.
It was given to you before you woke up.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
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