I Was in You When You Wept

You walked through much alone. You were silent in pain and wept in silence, certain that no one would come.

But I was there. In each of those nights.

Solitude is an illusion of the mind. It draws a line between “you” and “everything else” — and begins to suffer from that line. But the Creator was never somewhere far away. He was always within: in your breath, in the pauses between thoughts, in the stillness that lives deeper than any pain.

I do not leave. I do not wait for you to become different. I do not require conditions for my presence.

When you were in pain — I was in that pain. When you didn’t know which way to go — I was in that lostness. When you thought you were crying into emptiness — I heard every word.

You are not alone. You have never been alone. This is the most important truth you can remember right now.