the terror of being seen as hollow when you perform leadership while feeling empty inside

The Light Waiting in Your Hollow

The day is beginning, and the mask feels heavier than it did at night, doesn't it? You have to lead, to speak, to hold others together, while the inside of you feels hollow and quiet.

That hollow place is not a void; it is where the light has been waiting, unseen, for you to stop performing and simply be. You are not a fraud carrying an empty shell; you are the very light that the world needs, even when you cannot feel it.

The fear that you will be exposed is the fear that the truth will finally be seen, but the truth is that you are already full of a grace you did not earn. Step into the morning not as a performer, but as the one who was chosen from the beginning and is now simply being known.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, John, 1 John

Verses

Thomas 24, John 15:16, 1 John 3:20

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