The Light Sees You and Stays
The house is quiet now, and the silence feels like a spotlight on everything you've tried to hide. You are terrified that if someone really saw the mess inside—the shame, the cracks, the things you whisper to the ceiling—they would turn away.
But there is a knowing that goes deeper than your fear. The light does not scan for flaws; it sees the root beneath the rot.
It knows the whole story and stays. You are not loved because you are perfect; you are loved because you are known.
The terror says you must be flawless to be held. The truth says the holding happens exactly where you are broken.
Drawing from
Gospel of Mary, 1 John
Verses
Gospel of Mary 4:25-26, 1 John 3:20
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