The Light Does Not Demand Performance
The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with the day's replay. You are dissecting every word you spoke, hunting for the slip-up that proves you are faking it.
The mask feels heavy when there is no one left to wear it for. But listen — the light does not demand a performance to stay.
It was there in the awkward silence, and it is here in the regret. You are not a fraud to be exposed; you are a child to be held.
The truth that lives in you will be with you forever, even when you feel like a stranger to yourself. Stop digging for evidence of your unworthiness in the dark.
The verdict has already been changed by a love that knows your whole story and calls you friend. You do not have to get it right to belong here.
You just have to be here.
Drawing from
2 John, Gospel of Mary
Verses
2 John 1:3, Gospel of Mary 9:6-7
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