The Light in Your Unmasked Face
The house is quiet now, and the mask you wore all day has finally slipped. You catch your reflection in the dark window — a stranger staring back, exhausted from the performance of being okay.
But listen. The light does not require you to keep smiling to stay close to it.
When the room goes dark, the performance ends, and what remains is not a failure, but the truth. You do not have to reconstruct the person the world needs to see.
The light is already there, in the silence, in the fatigue, in the unguarded face you try to hide. It was shining before the first smile and it shines now, in the stillness of your unmasked self.
Drawing from
1 John 3:19-20, Matthew 6:6
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