Loved Beneath the Peeling Mask
The afternoon sun is unforgiving. It catches the dust on the frame, the crack in the paint, the parts of the mask you glued on this morning that are starting to peel.
You walk through the day terrified that if they see the real you, the love will vanish. But listen.
There is a love that does not need your performance to survive. It saw you before the mask existed.
It knows the fabrication and loves the person underneath anyway. You do not have to hold the act together for this love to remain.
The light is not fooled by the costume, and it is not leaving because of it. You are loved for the truth you are hiding, not the lie you are showing.
Drawing from
1 John 3:19-20, Thomas 77
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