Stop Running From The Light
The coffee cup is warm in your hand, but your mind is already drafting the next sentence. You are rehearsing gratitude before the other person has even finished speaking, just to make sure the mask stays fixed in place.
It is exhausting work, performing okayness while the inside feels hollow. But there is a light that does not need your performance to see you.
It sees the fatigue behind the smile. It knows the silence between your words.
You do not have to manufacture brightness for this light to find you. It is already shining on the part of you that is too tired to pretend.
The light does not ask for a show. It only asks for you to stop running.
Drawing from
Matthew, John
Verses
Matthew 6:22, John 1:14
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