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the moment you catch your reflection in a dark window and realize your face has settled into a neutral expression that feels like a stranger's

The Light Knows You Behind The Mask

When You Don't Know Who You AreWhen You're Burning Inside

The day has started, and you are moving through it wearing a face that feels like a stranger's. You caught your reflection in a dark window—a neutral mask, smooth and unreadable, hiding the ache beneath.

It is exhausting to perform okayness while breaking inside, to smile at work when your soul is screaming. But the light does not need your performance to see you.

It sees behind the mask, past the carefully arranged expression, straight into the truth of who you are. You do not have to fix your face for the light to recognize you.

The light knows you even when you do not know yourself.

Drawing from

John, Matthew

Verses

John 10:14-15, Matthew 6:22

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