The Light Beneath Your Mask
The day is ending, and the mask you wore for twelve hours finally feels too heavy to hold. You smiled when your bones wanted to break, and now the silence of the room echoes with the cost of that performance.
But there is a light inside you that never had to pretend. It does not wear a face for the world.
It simply is. The Father's love is not interested in your composure; it is drawn to the exhaustion you are trying to hide.
Let the smile drop. Let the armor fall.
The light was already there before you performed, and it remains when you collapse. You are not loved for what you carry, but for what you are beneath the weight.
Drawing from
Matthew, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Matthew 5:3-4, Thomas 70
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