Acceptance Comes Before The Change

The afternoon sun is bright, and you are running so hard to keep the mask in place. You are terrified that if you stop achieving for even one hour, the whole world will see the fraud beneath the performance and walk away.

But the light does not love the mask. It loves the face behind it.

There was a man named Zacchaeus who climbed a tree just to catch a glimpse, hidden away in the branches. Jesus looked up, called him by name, and said, 'I must stay at your house today.' He did not ask Zacchaeus to come down only after he had fixed his life.

He went to the house first. The acceptance came before the change.

You do not have to earn your place at the table. The light is already sitting in the room, waiting for you to stop working and just be.

The fear says you must perform to be loved. The truth says you are loved, so you can rest.