The Light Is Not In The Notification
The sun is rising, but your thumb is still scrolling, refreshing a screen that has nothing new to show you. You are waiting for a word from someone else to tell you that you exist, that you are loved, that you are seen.
But the light does not live in the notification bar. It lives in the quiet of this morning, in the dust motes dancing in the first ray of sun.
There is light within you, and it lights up the whole world — even if no one replies. You have been looking outside for what has always been inside.
Put the phone down. The silence is not emptiness.
It is the space where you finally hear your own name spoken by the one who never sleeps.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Saying 24, Gospel of Thomas, Saying 3
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