The Light That Holds You Up
The afternoon is a long, quiet room where the mask feels heaviest. You keep moving because you are terrified that if you stop, the emptiness will finally swallow you whole.
But there is a light inside you that does not depend on your performance to exist. It was there before you started working, and it will be there when you finally sit down.
You do not have to hold it up; it holds you. The light is not a task you complete; it is the ground you stand on.
Even in the middle of the noise, the light is already enough.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
Verses
Gospel of Thomas 24, Matthew 11:28
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