The Light Needs Your Honesty Not Perfection
The afternoon sun is unforgiving. It exposes every crack in the mask you wear to get through the day.
You are terrified that if you stop performing, everyone will see the fraud beneath the surface. But the light does not need your perfection.
It needs your honesty. There is something inside you waiting to be brought forth — the real you, the one you hide.
If you keep it buried, the hiding will destroy you. But if you let it out, that very thing will save you.
The light is already in the ordinary moments you think are too mundane to matter. Split a piece of wood.
Lift a stone. The truth is there, waiting for you to stop pretending and simply be.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
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