The Light Sees Behind Your Mask
The afternoon demands a performance you are too tired to give. You edit every sentence before it leaves your lips, terrified that one unguarded word will reveal the monster you believe lives inside.
But the light does not require your perfection — it only requires your presence. There is a voice that says if you bring forth what is within you, it will save you; if you bury it, that silence will destroy you.
The thing you are hiding is not a monster. It is the child of true Humanity, waiting to be followed.
You do not have to hold the mask together anymore. The light sees behind the performance and loves what it finds there.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Mary
Verses
Gospel of Mary 9:4-5
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