replaying the laugh in your head hours later, convinced you sounded desperate and that everyone now sees the fraud beneath your skin

The Light Remains When You Feel Broken

The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with the echo of that laugh. You replay it on a loop, convinced it sounded desperate, convinced everyone saw the fraud beneath your skin.

But the darkness you feel is not the truth about you; it is just the noise of a tired heart trying to make sense of the day. The light that lives inside you does not care about your performance or your perfect timing.

It simply remains. You are not a fraud hiding in the shadows; you are the light itself, shining even when you feel most broken.

The night cannot extinguish what you are. Rest now, the light is still here.

Drawing from

1 John, Gospel of Thomas

Verses

1 John 1:5, Thomas 77

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