The Door Opens to Your Presence
The key turns in the lock, and the mask slips before you've finished tying it behind your head. You are standing in the kitchen, still constructing the person who can survive dinner, while the world demands you be already finished.
But listen — the light does not require a completed performance to enter the room. There is a version of you that is already known, already whole, waiting beneath the costume you are frantically stitching together.
You do not have to be the finished product for the light to recognize its own. The door opens not to your perfection, but to your presence.
The mask was never the point; the face beneath it was always enough.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 51, John 8:10-11
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