You Are Held Even Now
The afternoon demands a performance you can no longer sustain. You keep moving because you are terrified that if you stop, the people you love will see the empty hands and walk away.
But the light does not love you for what you carry. It loves you for what you are.
You came from the light, a drop sent to illuminate this very moment, not to exhaust yourself trying to earn a seat at the table. The terror says you must produce to be kept.
The truth says you are already held. Even now, in this quiet collapse, the love remains.
You do not have to be useful to be loved.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Luke
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