The Light Sees Your Honest Tears
The house is quiet, but your chest is still heaving from the drive home. You stand in the hallway, holding your breath, forcing a bright voice before you step into the living room so no one knows you cried in the car.
It feels like you are wearing a mask that is slowly suffocating the real you beneath it. But there is a light inside you that does not need to perform to be real.
It sees behind the smile. It knows the tears were honest, and it loves the person who shed them more than the person who is pretending to be fine.
You do not have to carry the weight of being okay for everyone else. The light is already in the room, waiting for you to simply be there, exactly as you are.
You are not your performance; you are the peace beneath it.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, 1 John
Verses
1 John 3:20
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