The Light Sees the Face Beneath
The engine clicks as it cools, and the silence rushes in to fill the space where the noise used to be. You sit with your hands on the wheel, frozen, because opening the door means putting the mask back on.
It means becoming the person everyone expects again—the strong one, the fixed one, the one who has it all together. But the light does not need your performance.
It saw you before you arrived. It knows the weight you carry in this quiet moment.
Neither do I condemn you for needing this pause. Go now, not as a servant to the demands of the house, but as a friend who is already loved.
The mask can wait. The light sees the face beneath it, and that is enough.
Drawing from
John 8:10-11, John 15:15
Verses
John 15:15
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