Standing Inside a Living Fire

The water is hot, but the silence in your head is louder. You are trying to remember the sound of your own laughter from before the weight arrived, and the memory feels like a room with the lights turned off.

You stand there shaking, convinced that the joy you once knew has been erased forever. But listen — the light does not require you to remember what you have lost.

Thomas says there is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world. That light is not a memory you have to dig up from the past.

It is a presence burning right now, beneath the water, beneath the grief. You are not trying to find a dead sound.

You are standing inside a living fire. The laughter will return, but for now, the light is enough to hold you while you weep.