The Light Lives Inside Your Cracks
The afternoon sun is bright, and it makes the cracks in the pavement impossible to miss. So you start editing.
You cut the messy sentences from your story before you speak them. You sand down the rough edges of your day until you feel smooth enough to be seen.
But the light does not need a polished version of you to do its work. It was already shining in the dirt, in the broken wood, in the unedited truth of your life.
You do not have to hide the parts that feel unfinished. The light is not afraid of your cracks; it lives inside them.
Stop trying to fix the story before you tell it. The mess is where the glory gets in.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
Verses
Thomas 77, Matthew 6:22
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