the quiet terror of feeling like a fraud that everyone else has already figured out the secret you don't know

Light Waits in Your Broken Dust

The day is ending, and the mask you wore for twelve hours finally feels heavy enough to drop. You watch the others walk away, confident and whole, while you stand there wondering when everyone else learned the secret you missed.

But listen — the light does not require you to have it all together before it comes near. There was a man paralyzed for years, lowered through a roof by friends who refused to give up, and the first thing the light said to him was not 'fix yourself' but 'take heart.' Your fraudulence is not a barrier; it is the very place where the truth meets you.

Split a piece of wood, and the light is there; lift a stone, and you will find it waiting in the dust. You are not an imposter in the dark; you are the very place where the light has chosen to dwell.

Drawing from

Mark 2:5, Gospel of Thomas 77

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