The Crack Where the Dawn Gets In
The afternoon hums with the noise of people pretending to be fine. You are rehearsing a casual apology in your head, polishing a lie to explain away the one moment you were real.
The mask feels heavy now, a second skin you cannot peel off without bleeding. But listen — there is a light inside you that does not need your performance to survive.
It was there before the slip-up, and it remains after the excuse. You do not have to convince the world you are okay to be held by the light.
The truth you are hiding is the very thing the light is waiting to embrace. Stop running from the moment you broke.
That crack is where the dawn gets in.
Drawing from
John 3:19-21, Gospel of Thomas 77
Verses
John 3:19-21
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