You Are Not A Fraud Beneath The Mask
The afternoon sun is high, and the requests keep coming — small asks that feel like traps. You say yes when your soul is screaming no, terrified that one boundary will peel back the mask and show them the fraud beneath.
But the light does not live in your performance. It lives in your origin.
You came from the light, a drop sent to illuminate this very moment, not to exhaust yourself for applause. The one who sees you knows you are not a fraud; he sees the tired eyes behind the smile and calls you by your true name.
Stop trying to hold up the sky with your own two hands. The light that generated you is strong enough to carry the weight of your 'no.'
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Sophia of Jesus Christ
Verses
Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:5-8
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