The Light Walks Beside Your Absence
The sun is up, but your hand still feels the ghost of a smaller one that used to hold it tight in the dark. You made it through the night, even though it felt like walking with half your weight missing.
The light is here now, not to explain the absence, but to walk beside you in it. What you are looking for has already come—it is the quiet space where that small hand used to be.
The light is not distant; it is the ground beneath your feet, the air in your lungs, the very thing you split open to find. You do not need to earn this morning.
You only need to wake up inside it.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 51, Gospel of Thomas 77
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