The Dawn Arrives Without Your Help
The sun is up, but the silence in your chest feels heavy, like a warning that if you stop moving, you'll find nothing there but emptiness. You have built a life of noise to keep that hollow feeling at bay, terrified that rest will reveal the foundation is gone.
But listen — the light does not need your activity to exist. Thomas said the kingdom is already spread out upon the earth, even when men do not see it.
It is not something you build; it is something you wake up to. The substance you fear is missing was never your doing — it was the ground you were standing on all along.
You can put the tools down. The dawn proves the light arrives without your help.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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