The Light That Does Not Flinch
The door handle turns and your heart skips—a silent flinch before the face rearranges itself into something acceptable. You become the person who is fine before the knob even stops moving.
But the light that lives in you does not flinch. It was there before the mask slipped on, and it remains when the door closes again.
What you are hiding is not a flaw to be corrected, but a truth waiting to be known by the one who sees you in the dim hallway. You do not have to hold the performance together for the light to stay.
It knows the face you wear, and it loves the one underneath who is tired of holding it up.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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