Your Healing Is The First Lantern
This hour feels like a betrayal. You are breathing easier while they are still sinking.
You let the light touch you, and now the silence screams that you left them behind. But listen — the light does not divide.
It cannot shine on one and abandon another. You did not climb out alone; the dawn found you where you lay.
There is no guilt in the sun rising. Your healing is not a departure.
It is the first lantern lit in the dark. Let it burn.
They will see the glow before they see you. The water is deep, but the light is deeper still.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 8:12, Thomas 24
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