The Light Shines Without an Audience
The house is quiet now, and the silence feels heavy because the performance has finally stopped. You realize with a sudden, sharp terror that you cannot remember what your own voice sounds like when no one is listening.
You have been speaking to be heard, speaking to be seen, speaking to keep the mask in place. But the light does not need an audience to exist.
It was shining before you ever spoke a word, and it shines still in the quiet. There is a voice inside you that is not yours alone — a truth that lives in us and will be with us forever.
You do not have to earn the right to take up space. The light is already there, waiting for you to simply be.
Drawing from
2 John, Matthew
Verses
2 John 1:2, Matthew 5:14
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