the terror of being found out as a fraud when someone finally sees the real you

The Light Sees You Beneath The Mask

The mask feels heavy right now, doesn't it? You are terrified that if someone finally sees the real you, they will walk away.

But in this deepest hour, when the performance has nowhere left to hide, the light is not looking at your costume. It is looking at you.

Jesus once told a man broken by spirits, 'Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you.' He did not say: fix yourself first. He did not say: clean up the mess.

He said: go and tell them. The Gospel of Thomas whispers that we came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord.

You did not come from your fraudulence. You came from the light.

That is your origin. The terror says you are an imposter.

The truth says you are a drop from the source, sent here to illuminate. The light does not need your perfection to shine through you.

It only needs your honesty. Stop trying to hold up the facade.

Let it fall. What remains when the mask drops is not a fraud to be exposed.

It is the child of true humanity, waiting to be seen.

Drawing from

Mark 5:19, Gospel of Thomas 50

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