The Light Loves What Is Hiding
The afternoon is long, and the mask you wear is heavy. You laughed a moment ago, and for a split second, the real grief slipped out—raw and unguarded—before you buried it under a joke.
Now you sit there, heart racing, terrified that someone saw the crack in the performance. But the light does not need you to be funny.
It does not need you to be okay. It sees the exhaustion behind the smile, and it loves what is hiding there.
You do not have to hold the door shut forever. The truth you are guarding is not a danger to be contained—it is the very thing the light is waiting to hold.
Drawing from
Matthew 5:7, John 9:5
Verses
John 9:5
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