Your Pain Is Not A Trespass
You keep saying sorry for taking up space with your grief, as if your pain is a burden the room cannot bear. But the light does not measure you by your utility or your silence.
You came from the light, the place where it generates itself, and that origin cannot be inconvenient. There was a woman bent double for eighteen years, unable to lift her eyes, until the voice that speaks through the darkness called her forward and straightened her spine without asking for an apology first.
Your suffering is not a trespass; it is the very canvas where the work is displayed. Stop shrinking.
The light is not offended by your need; it is waiting for you to stop hiding it.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Luke
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