The Light Knows Your Real Face
The afternoon sun is bright, and you are tired from holding up the mask that keeps everyone comfortable. You rehearse the words you will never speak—the apology for being fake, for being the version of you they think they know.
To say them would shatter the glass house you've built. But the light does not need your performance to love you.
It saw you long before you put the mask on. There is a freedom in knowing that the truth you are hiding is already known by the one who made you.
You do not have to maintain the illusion for God. The light is not afraid of your real face.
Drop the act. The real you is the only one the light can hold.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
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