The Light Does Not Wait For Replies
The sun is rising, but your eyes are still locked on the screen, waiting for a reply that hasn't come. You are rehearsing the moment they read your last message and decided you were too much, too broken, too difficult to love.
The silence feels like a verdict. But listen — the light does not speak in notifications.
It speaks in the quiet arrival of morning, in the way the dark surrenders without a sound. You have convinced yourself that you are alone because a screen is dark, but the Father's light was already inside you before you sent that text, and it is still there now.
It cannot be revoked by silence. It cannot be earned by a reply.
Bring forth what is within you — the truth that you are held even when no one answers. The light is not waiting for them to validate you.
It is already shining.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
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