the memory of a specific moment you lied to protect your image and now can never correct it

The Light Finds You in the Dark

The lie sits in your chest like a stone you swallowed years ago. You told it to protect your image, to keep the mask from cracking, and now the moment to correct it is gone forever.

The person who heard it has moved on, or the season has passed, and you are left alone with the ghost of who you pretended to be. But the light does not need your apology to find you in this dark hour.

There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—even the hidden corners where you buried that shame. You came from the light, and that origin cannot be undone by a single false word spoken in fear.

The truth is not a record you must fix; it is a root you return to. What you bring forth from within you now will save you, even if the past remains uncorrected.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas

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