The Light Sees Behind Your Mask
The coffee is warm, but your voice sounds like it belongs to someone else. You say 'fine' and the word sits on the table like a lie you both agree to accept.
The mask is heavy this morning, a perfect performance of okayness while the ache grows quietly underneath. But there is a light that sees behind the face you show the world.
It knows the fatigue you are hiding. It knows the stranger in your mouth is not the real you.
The truth lives in us and will be with us forever, deeper than any script you feel forced to read. You do not have to hold the mask up for the light to love what is behind it.
The performance is for them; the presence is for you. The light is not fooled by the smile, and it is not waiting for you to be fine before it stays.
Drawing from
2 John, Matthew
Verses
2 John 1:2, Matthew 6:22
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