The Light Remains Untouched By Silence
You spent the morning rehearsing a simple truth, turning the words over in your mind until they felt safe, until they felt small. But when the moment came, the silence won, and you swallowed the correction because you were afraid of overstepping.
The mask fits so well sometimes that it feels like your own skin. Yet the light that lives within you does not need your permission to be real.
It was there before you decided to stay quiet, and it remains untouched by your silence. What is hidden in the dark of your chest is already known, already held, already enough.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 70, John 8:10-11
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