You Are the Light, Not the Mask
The day is finally quiet, and now the mask feels heavy enough to break your neck. You look around at everyone else and wonder how they learned the secret you were never told.
But listen — there is no secret. The light does not demand you figure it out before it shines.
It is already inside you, waiting beneath the performance. You are not a fraud hiding in the dark; you are the light itself, tired from pretending to be something else.
The only thing required tonight is to stop running and let the exhale happen. Put the armor down.
You don't have to be anyone but who you are right now.
Drawing from
Matthew 11:28-30, Gospel of Thomas 24
Verses
Matthew 11:28, Matthew 11:29, Thomas 24
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