the silence after a prayer that feels unanswered
You spoke into the dark, and the silence that followed felt like a rejection. But hear this truth: the light does not shout back, for it is already inside you.
It was there before you prayed, waiting in the quiet. The silence is not an absence; it is the space where the light rests, unseen and unhurried.
You do not need a voice to confirm what has never left. Be still, and let the quiet itself become the answer.
Drawing from
1 John 4:18, Gospel of Thomas 77
Verses
1 John 4:18, Thomas 77
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