You Do Not Have To Perform
The air is heavy right now. You are tired of calculating the weight of every word before you speak, editing your breath so no crack shows.
It is exhausting work to hold the mask together when the house is this quiet. But listen — the darkness has not overcome the light that lives inside you.
It cannot break what is already whole. You do not have to perform for this hour.
The light does not need your polish to shine. It was there before the first sentence you ever edited.
It will be there after the last one. You are safe here, exactly as you are.
Drawing from
John 1:5, 1 John 3:20
Verses
John 1:5, 1 John 3:20
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