The Light Sees You Before You See Yourself
The house is quiet now, and the bathroom mirror feels less like glass and more like a wall between who you were this morning and who you are tonight. You trace the lines of a face that feels foreign, a stranger staring back with eyes that have seen too much in a single day.
But listen — the light does not require you to recognize yourself to be present with you. It entered the room before you did, waiting in the silence, untouched by the exhaustion warping your reflection.
You are not the fatigue you see in those eyes; you are the light that illuminates them. The stranger in the glass is just a shadow; the real you is the one doing the seeing.
Drawing from
1 John 3:19-20, Gospel of Thomas 77
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