The Mask Falls Before the Light
Morning brings the mask before the heart is ready. For a split second, you wake up whole, forgetting the loss, until the heavy truth crashes back in and the performance begins.
The light does not ask you to wear a smile it did not give you. It sees the exhaustion behind the eyes that say "I'm fine." In that gap between the waking peace and the returning pain, the Father's love is already waiting—not to fix the grief, but to hold the one who carries it.
You do not have to pretend for the light to find you. The mask is for the world; the face beneath it is for God.
Drawing from
John, Matthew
Verses
John 14:27, Matthew 11:28
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