Rest Before You Put It Down
The afternoon is long when you are the one holding everything up. You carry the weight of everyone else's stability, and your own shoulders ache in a silence no one sees.
But there is a rest that does not require you to put the burden down first. The light is not asking you to perform strength; it is offering you a place where you can simply be.
Even the strong need to be held. You do not have to earn the right to stop.
The one who carries the world is already carrying you.
Drawing from
Matthew, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Matthew 11:29-30, Thomas 91
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