The Light Lives Inside Your Shadow
The house is quiet now, and in this silence, the fear speaks loudest. It whispers that if they truly saw the depth of your damage, they would leave immediately.
That your hidden fractures are too wide to be held. But there is a knowing that sees the whole of you — the broken pieces and the sharp edges — and does not turn away.
You do not have to hide the dark parts to be loved. The light does not run from the shadow; it lives inside it with you.
You are not a project to be fixed before you are worthy of company. You are already known, and you are still here.
The door is not locked from the inside.
Drawing from
1 John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
1 John 3:20
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