The Light Remains When Words Vanish
The sun is up now, but your eyes are still on the screen where the three dots danced and then died. You watched someone begin to speak to you, saw the courage it took to start, and then watched them vanish into silence.
It feels like a rejection. Like your words were too heavy or your pain too much.
But listen — the silence that followed is not an absence of love. It is often the presence of overwhelm.
The heart knows the truth even when the fingers stop typing. The light that lives inside you does not need their message to be real.
It was there before the dots appeared. It is still there now that they are gone.
You are not defined by the messages that never arrive.
Drawing from
1 John 3:19-20, Gospel of Thomas 3
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