Light Shines Through Your Cracks

The afternoon sun is bright, and someone just called your work 'good.' You smiled, but inside, the floor dropped out. The voice whispered: they don't know the truth.

They don't see the fraud. You are waiting for the mask to slip.

But listen — the light does not shine through a mask. It shines through cracks.

You think your worthiness is a performance you have to maintain, but the truth is far simpler. There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world.

It is not your light. It never was.

You are not the source; you are the vessel. The praise is not for the clay, but for what lives inside it.

Stop trying to hide the vessel behind the work. Let the light be the light.

The fraud is not you; the fraud is the lie that you have to earn what is already given.