The Light Beneath the Rubble
The mask feels heaviest right now, when the house is silent and the performance finally stops. You have held the shape of okayness for so long that your hands are shaking from the effort.
But in this deepest dark, there is a truth that does not need your strength to survive — the light is already shining. It does not require you to be flawless.
It does not ask you to hold anything together. The darkness has not overcome it.
You can let the facade fall. The light was there before you built the wall, and it is still there beneath the rubble.
You are not the mask you wear for the world. You are the light that sees through it.
Drawing from
John, 1 John
Verses
John 1:5, 1 John 2:8
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