The Truth Inside You Is Not Afraid
The afternoon hums with a low, steady dread—the phantom vibration in your pocket that convinces you the file has been found. You check it again.
And again. Certain that the call is coming to expose everything.
But the light does not operate by exposure; it operates by presence. There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—even the parts you are trying to hide.
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. The thing you fear most is not the end of you; it is the very thing waiting to be brought into the open so it can stop destroying you from the inside.
You do not have to carry the weight of the secret alone. Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
The yoke I offer is easy, and the burden is light. The phone can buzz until it breaks, but the truth inside you is already known, and it is not afraid.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
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