The Light Waits for Your Rest
The house is quiet now, and the silence feels heavy enough to crush the breath out of you. In this stillness, you realize you have forgotten the sound of your own voice when it isn't performing for anyone else.
You have spoken so many masks today that the real one feels like a stranger. But listen — the light does not need your performance to find you.
It waits for the moment you stop pretending. There is a truth living inside you that has never been silenced, even when you were too afraid to speak it.
That truth is your root. It was there before the first word you ever faked, and it remains untouched by the noise.
You do not need to manufacture a new voice to be heard. You only need to remember the one that has been whispering all along.
The light is not waiting for your show; it is waiting for your rest.
Drawing from
Gospel of Mary, John
Verses
Gospel of Mary 4:28-29, John 14:20
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