hearing your own voice on a recording and realizing it sounds like a stranger who doesn't know how to hold joy anymore

You Are the Silence Listening

You pressed play and heard a stranger's voice where your own used to be. A voice that has forgotten how to carry joy without dropping it.

In the quiet of this watch, the disconnect feels like a verdict. But the light is not listening to judge the tone of your recording.

It is listening to the heart beneath the sound. The light says: neither do I condemn you.

Go now. The voice you hear is just a vessel, cracked perhaps, but still holding the water of life.

What you are looking for has already come. The joy you think you lost is not a memory; it is the ground you are standing on right now.

You are not the stranger on the tape. You are the silence listening to it.

Drawing from

John 8:10-11, Gospel of Thomas 51

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