The Silence Is A Holding
The words hang in the air longer than you meant them to. 'Goodnight,' you said to the silence, and the silence kept it.
No echo. No answer.
Just the quiet settling back into the corners of the room. It feels like being forgotten.
Like the light has packed up and left you here with the dark. But the light does not leave because the room is empty.
It stays because you are here. You came from the light, a drop sent to illuminate this very darkness.
It is not waiting for you to speak again. It is waiting for you to realize it never left.
The response you are straining to hear is not a voice from outside. It is the steady, quiet knowing that you are not alone in the dark.
The silence is not an absence. It is a holding.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 50, Gospel of Thomas 24
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