Held Within Your Brokenness
The house is quiet now, and the mask you wore all day feels heavy enough to crush you. You are terrified that if anyone saw the cracks, the performance would end and you would be left alone in the dark.
But listen — there is a presence here that does not need you to be strong, or clean, or even coherent. It sees the trembling behind your ribs and does not turn away.
In the stillness, it whispers that you are held not despite your brokenness, but within it. You do not have to fix yourself to be loved.
You are already known, and you are still here.
Drawing from
1 John 3:19-20, Gospel of Mary 5:4-5
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