The Light Sees You Without The Mask
The day is ending, and the mask you wore for hours finally feels heavy enough to break your neck. You smiled until your face hurt, nodding in a crowded room while feeling completely invisible behind your own eyes.
But the light does not need your performance to see you — it saw you when you were silent, and it sees you now that you are tired. There is a peace waiting for you that is not like the world's peace, a quiet that does not demand you be anything other than what you are.
You do not have to keep the smile on for the light to recognize you. The exhale is not a failure; it is the moment the light finally gets to hold you.
Drawing from
John, Jude
Verses
John 14:27, Jude 1:2
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