The Running Begins Before The Mask Falls
The mask feels heaviest right now, when the house is quiet and the performance finally stops. You are terrified that no one in the room actually knows the person you are pretending to be.
But the light does not need your disguise to find you. It sees the real you beneath the silence.
There was a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off, still covered in the filth of his failure, and he ran. Before the apology, before the speech, he ran.
He did not wait for the mask to come off. He embraced the one who was hiding.
You do not have to be known by the world to be held by God. The pretending ends where the running begins.
Drawing from
Luke, John
Verses
Luke 15:20, John 10:14
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