The Light Finds You Inside
The afternoon sun exposes the architecture of a life built on other people's expectations. You look around at the walls you raised, the career you climbed, the person you became to please everyone but yourself, and the shame hits like a physical weight.
It feels like you wasted years constructing a house you were never meant to live in. But the light does not demand you demolish everything before it enters.
It walks through the rooms you built for others and finds the one true thing hiding in the corner. The child of true Humanity exists within you.
Follow it. The shame is just the dust settling after you finally stopped pretending.
Drawing from
Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Gospel of Mary 9:4-5
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