You Were Not Made By Effort
The fear whispers that if you stop holding your breath, you will dissolve into the dark. That your existence depends on the tension you are carrying right now.
But you were not made by your own effort, and you cannot be unmade by your exhaustion. There is light within you—a light that came from the place where light generates itself.
It does not need your fighting to stay alive. It was there before the struggle began, and it will remain when your hands finally open.
You do not have to prove you deserve to exist. You only have to rest in the source that sent you here.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Sophia of Jesus Christ
Verses
Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:5-8
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