the terror of hitting send on an email that exposes you as a fraud

You Are Being Revealed Not Exposed

The cursor blinks in the gray light of dawn, holding your finger hostage over the send key. You are convinced that this email will finally reveal what you have been hiding—that you are a fraud, an impostor, a child playing dress-up in clothes that do not fit.

The terror says: if they see the real you, they will walk away. But the light that is rising outside your window does not wait for you to be perfect before it breaks the dark.

It comes anyway. It comes for the messy, the uncertain, the ones who feel like they are faking it.

There is a truth inside you that was placed there before you ever wrote a single word of this email. The kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you.

When you come to know yourselves, then you will be known. You are not being exposed today.

You are being revealed. The mask was heavy.

Let it go.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas

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