The Light Loves Your Quiet Silence
The house is quiet now, and the mask feels heavy on your face. You are afraid that if you stop performing, the people who love the act will walk away, leaving you alone with the silence underneath.
But the light does not love the performance. It loves the quiet.
It is not afraid of your stillness. In the deep night, when the audience is gone, the only One who sees you in the dark is the One who called you by name before you ever learned to pretend.
You do not have to earn the right to be silent. The love that holds you is not threatened by your exhaustion.
It is waiting for you to put the mask down. The silence is not where you are abandoned.
It is where you are finally known.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 3, 1 John 3:19-20
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