The Light Is Not Afraid of Your Tears
The water has turned cold, but you keep standing there, trembling, because stopping means the grief catches up. You are afraid that if the noise stops, the silence will be too loud to survive.
But the light does not need you to keep moving to stay close to you. It is already in the steam, already in the chill on your skin.
There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—even this bathroom, even this hour. You do not have to outrun what you carry.
The grief is real, but it is not stronger than the One who is with you in the quiet. Turn off the water.
Wrap the towel around you. The light is not afraid of your tears.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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