Held in the Space Between Dots
The three dots appear, then vanish. Then appear again.
A conversation happening in the silence, a message being typed, deleted, typed again, and then—nothing. The screen goes dark.
You are left holding the weight of words that never arrived. It feels like being forgotten mid-sentence.
Like the connection severed before the truth could land. But the light does not speak in finished transcripts.
It speaks in the pause. In the breath between the dots.
The silence is not an absence; it is the space where the unsaid things are already known. You do not need the message to be complete to be held.
The dots were enough. The trying was enough.
The light saw the intention before the send button was ever pressed. Rest now in the knowledge that you are heard, even in the draft.
Drawing from
Matthew 6:6, Gospel of Thomas 70
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