The Light Sees Your Protection
The house is quiet now, but the lie you told is loud in your head. You spun the story to keep them safe, to shield them from a truth you thought they couldn't carry.
Now you wait for the morning, terrified that if they knew, they would turn away. That the bond would snap.
But listen — there is a love that knows exactly what you did, and why you did it, and it has not turned away. The light sees the fear behind the fiction.
It sees the protection in the pretense. And it does not condemn you for trying to be a wall between your family and the pain.
You are not defined by the shadow you cast to keep them warm. The truth is already known, and the love is still holding.
Drawing from
1 John, Gospel of Mary
Verses
1 John 3:20, Gospel of Mary 4:28-29
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