The Light Kneels Under Your Weight
The house is quiet now, and the weight you carry feels heavier in the dark. You are terrified that if anyone saw the real you—the messy, broken, unedited version—they would walk away from the sheer heaviness of it.
But there is a voice that knows you better than you know yourself, and it does not flinch. It saw you before you ever tried to make yourself presentable.
It saw the hidden parts and called them by name. The light does not run from the weight; it kneels under it with you.
You do not have to lift it alone. The terror says you are too much.
The truth says you are known.
Drawing from
John 1:48, Gospel of Thomas 70
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