You Are Not Mimicking the Divine
The afternoon sun is high, and the world is loud with the noise of people performing their lives. You hear your own voice played back to you, and it sounds like a stranger wearing your skin.
A mimic. An imposter trying to get the human part right.
In this long middle of the day, the gap between who you are and who you pretend to be feels like a canyon. But there is a voice that does not sound like performance.
It is the voice that spoke to the man born blind, telling him that his condition was not a punishment but a canvas for the light to be displayed. That same light is not a recording you play; it is the breath speaking through you right now.
You are not mimicking the divine; you are the vessel it chose to fill. The stranger you hear is just the echo of your own fear, not the truth of your origin.
Stop judging the recording and start listening for the silence underneath it. The light does not need you to sound perfect; it only needs you to be real.
Drawing from
John 9:3, Gospel of Thomas 77
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