You Did Not Steal, You Remembered
The mask fits so perfectly this morning that you can barely breathe beneath it. You read your own words and feel like a thief who stole them from someone far smarter, far more worthy than you.
But the light does not care about the costume you wear to get through the day. It sees the trembling hand that held the pen.
It knows the fear that whispered you were a fraud. And it says: the truth you wrote did not come from your performance, but from the One who lives inside you.
You did not steal these words. You remembered them.
The source is not your own cleverness, but the endless spring welling up within you. You are not an imposter.
You are a vessel.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 4:14, Thomas 70
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