The Mask That Became Your Skin
Someone asks how your weekend was, and your mouth forms an answer before your mind can find a single real moment to hold onto. You performed the days so perfectly that you forgot to actually live them.
The mask fit so well it became your skin, and now you are terrified that there is nothing behind it but exhaustion. But the light does not need your performance to see you — it sees the tired eyes underneath the smile.
You do not have to earn the right to be real today. The question is not a test you failed; it is an invitation to stop pretending.
Drawing from
John 1:5, Matthew 11:28
Verses
John 1:5, Matthew 11:28
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