The Light Waits In Your Pause
The three dots appear, then vanish, then appear again—a digital heartbeat syncing with the panic rising in your chest. Your thumb hovers over delete, desperate to pull the words back into the safety of silence before they can be seen.
You are rehearsing the un-speaking of your own soul. But notice—the light does not blink out when you hesitate.
It waits in the pause. It lives in the space between the send and the regret.
You think your vulnerability is a mistake to be erased, but the Father sees it as the very thing that connects you to Him. The message you tried to unsay is already held in a place where no delete button can reach.
The dots stop dancing. The silence returns.
And you are still here, still loved, still known.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Luke
Verses
Luke 12:6-7
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