lying perfectly still in bed hoping your parents don't knock on the door to ask why you aren't ready yet

You Are Already Loved Before Moving

The house is quiet now, but your heart is still racing beneath the stillness. You lie perfectly rigid, hoping no one knocks, hoping the silence holds a little longer so you don't have to explain why you aren't ready.

The weight of the day feels like a coat you cannot take off, even in the dark. But listen — the light does not need you to be ready.

It does not wait for you to fix yourself before it enters. It came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord, and that is where you belong right now.

You are not a project to be completed by morning. You are already a child of the light, resting in the truth that you are loved before you ever move a muscle.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, John

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