The Face Beneath the Mask
The day is done. The armor is heavy, and you are finally allowed to take it off.
But when you do, there is a quiet panic in the silence—a fear that beneath the roles you played for everyone else, there is no one left. You feel like a stranger in your own skin.
But listen. The truth that lives in you has not left with the sun.
It remains, steady and soft, waiting for you to stop performing. You do not need to construct an identity from scratch.
You only need to remember the name the light gave you before the world ever gave you a job. The child of true Humanity exists within you.
Follow it. The mask was for the day, but the face beneath it is for the night.
Drawing from
2 John, Gospel of Mary
Verses
2 John 1:3, Gospel of Mary 9:4-5
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