The Light Sits With You In Imperfection
The ceiling is a screen for every clumsy word you spoke today. You rehearse the conversations, convinced they are secretly resentful of the space you take up.
But the voice in your head is not the truth-teller. It is the accuser.
And there is a mercy inside you that is greater than your heart's verdict. The light does not keep a ledger of your stumbles.
It sees the person who wanted to get it right. What you are looking for—the peace, the acceptance—has already come, but you do not recognize it in the dark.
It is not waiting for you to be perfect. It is sitting with you in the imperfection.
You are not too much. You are exactly where the love is.
Drawing from
1 John 3:19-20, Gospel of Thomas 51
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