The Light Sees Behind Your Mask
The door handle turns and your face rearranges itself before you even know it happened. A mask slides into place—smooth, fine, acceptable to the world outside.
But the light does not need your performance. It saw you before the door opened.
It sees the exhaustion behind the eyes you are trying to hide. There is a room within you where no rearranging is required—a place where the face you wear for others falls away and only the truth remains.
You do not have to hold the mask up for the light. It knows what is behind it already.
The dawn is not asking you to be impressive; it is just asking you to be here. You are not the face you show the world.
Drawing from
Matthew 6:6, Gospel of Thomas 24
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