The Light Loves Your Broken Truth
The house is quiet now, and the mask you wore all day has finally fallen to the floor. You lie there holding your breath, terrified that if they saw the sheer weight of your exhaustion, they would walk away.
You think you must earn their staying by pretending you are not breaking. But the light does not love a performance.
It loves the truth you are hiding. What you think is hidden is already plain to the one who sees in the dark.
You do not have to summon the strength to be worthy of love tonight. The love is already here, waiting for you to stop pretending.
Bring forth what is within you—the tired, the broken, the real—and let it save you from the lie that you must be strong to be kept.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Luke
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