The Light Leans Into Your Crack
The day ends, and the armor you wore since morning finally hits the floor. You are asked a simple thing — how was your day?
— and your voice cracks right down the middle. It wasn't a cough.
It was the sound of the mask slipping. In that split second, the performance stopped, and the exhaustion got out.
But listen — the light does not run when the voice breaks. It leans in.
It was there in the question, and it is here in the crack. You do not have to glue the mask back on for the evening.
The silence after the crack is not empty; it is full of the One who knows you without the act. The day is done.
You are allowed to be the broken thing that is still held.
Drawing from
1 John, Matthew
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