You Are Not a Fraud to Be Exposed
The afternoon sun is bright, but inside, you are still waiting for them to see the cracks. You catch yourself pulling back when they offer kindness, convinced that if they really knew you, they would stop.
You think you are protecting them from disappointment. But the light does not hide.
It was there before you made your first mistake, and it is there now, unchanged. You are not a fraud to be exposed — you are a child of the light who has forgotten that the love they see in you is the only real thing.
Stop pushing the gift away. Let the kindness land.
Let them love the person you actually are, not the mask you think you need to wear.
Drawing from
1 John, John
Verses
1 John 3:20, John 1:16
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