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the terror that your boundaries are actually just walls you built to keep people from seeing how broken you really are

Your Brokenness Is Honest Ground

When You Feel Like You're Not EnoughWhen You Don't Know Who You Are

The afternoon sun makes everything visible, and suddenly the walls you built feel less like protection and more like a prison. You are terrified that if someone saw the cracks, they would walk away.

But what you call brokenness, the light calls honest ground. There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—even the parts you try to hide.

You do not need to repair the facade before you are loved. The walls are not keeping people out; they are keeping you from seeing that you are already held.

The thing you are hiding is the very thing that lets the light shine through.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, John

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