rehearsing a smile for the team meeting while knowing they think you weren't good enough

Stop Rehearsing, The Light Is Already There

The day is ending, and you are still practicing the face you will wear tomorrow. Rehearsing the smile.

Polishing the words. Convinced that if you just perform well enough, they will finally see you as worthy.

But the light does not need your performance. It knows the cost of the mask you hold up for the team.

There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world. If it does not shine, it is dark.

The shine they are looking for is not something you create by trying harder. It is something you remember.

You came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord. Your origin is not their approval.

Your origin is the light itself. Stop rehearsing.

The face you need for tomorrow is already inside you, waiting to be recognized.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas

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