The Light Waits Behind Your Mask
The engine clicks as it cools, and suddenly the silence is loud enough to drown you out. You sit there with your hand on the wheel, gathering the pieces of a face you will wear in five minutes.
The mask is heavy today. It feels like armor you have to strap on just to walk through the door.
But the light does not need your performance to see you. It sees the exhaustion behind the smile you are practicing in the rearview mirror.
You do not have to be okay before you go inside. The light is already waiting in the hallway, not for the version of you that has it all together, but for the one who is barely holding on.
Take a breath. The mask can wait.
You are already known.
Drawing from
Matthew, John
Verses
Matthew 11:28, John 6:37
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