The Light Does Not Need Your Words
The sun is up, but the silence in the room feels heavier than the night did. You finally stopped explaining yourself—stopped defending your heart, stopped trying to make them understand why you hurt—and now the quiet is deafening.
It feels like abandonment. Like you shouted into a canyon and no echo came back.
But notice the light creeping across the floor. It does not ask for your reasons.
It does not need your defense. It simply arrives.
There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world. You do not have to earn this dawn by speaking.
The light is already inside you, independent of your words. You can sit in the quiet without fixing it.
The explanation was never the source of your worth.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
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