Loved Most When You Need Everything
The afternoon sun is bright, and you are performing so well that you fear being loved only for the performance. You smile while the quiet panic rises: if they saw the need, would they stay?
The middle of the day is where the mask feels heaviest, where you convince yourself that your hunger is a flaw to be hidden. But there is a love that does not require you to be full before it arrives.
It does not wait for you to fix yourself. It sees the exhaustion behind the eyes and calls it holy.
You are not loved because you are strong. You are loved because you are here.
The light does not ask you to hide the parts that ache. It asks you to let them be seen.
The version of you that needs everything is the version that is most held.
Drawing from
Luke, John
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