the fear that your affection is only tolerated because you have performed perfection

The Light Knows You Beyond Performance

It is three in the morning, and the silence feels heavy with the weight of your performance. You are afraid that if you stop being perfect, the love you receive will vanish like smoke.

But the light does not tolerate you; it knows you. There was a man born blind, and the people around him argued about whose fault it was, whose sin had caused the darkness.

The light stopped them. It said no one sinned.

This happened so the works of God might be displayed in him. Your brokenness is not a disqualification.

It is the canvas. You do not have to earn the right to be held.

The kingdom is inside you, not in the flawless mask you wear for the world. Bring forth what is within you—the tired, the messy, the real—or the hiding will destroy you.

The light is not waiting for your next achievement. It is waiting for you to stop performing and simply be.

Drawing from

John 9:1-7, Gospel of Thomas 70

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