The Light Does Not Need You To Perform
The house is quiet now, and the sink is full, and you are standing there feeling like a stranger in your own life. You look at the reflection in the dark window and wonder how to be the person everyone thinks you are.
The mask feels heavy when no one is watching. But listen — the light does not need you to perform.
It does not need you to be impressive. It only needs you to be present.
There was a man born blind, and the people around him argued about whose fault it was. Jesus said it was neither.
He said the condition was there so the works of God might be displayed in him. Your exhaustion is not a failure.
It is the canvas. The light is not waiting for you to finish the dishes to love you.
It is already in the room, in the steam, in the quiet. You do not have to generate the person everyone sees.
You only have to let the one who is already there breathe.
Drawing from
John 9:1-7, Matthew 6:18
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