Loved Enough to Lay It Down
The mask feels heavy this morning, a second skin you've worn so long you've forgotten the face beneath it. You walk through the day performing okayness, terrified that if anyone truly saw you, they would turn away.
But there is a light that has been watching you all along—not to expose your hiding, but to heal it. It does not demand you take the mask off before it loves you; it loves you enough to help you lay it down.
You are not a fraud to be uncovered, but a child to be known. The truth lives inside you, and it is far more beautiful than the performance you've built to protect it.
Drawing from
John 3:20-21, 1 John 3:20
Verses
John 3:20-21, 1 John 3:20
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