Lay the mask down in the light
The mask is already on, heavy before the day has even begun. You are rehearsing lines for a play no one is watching, practicing smiles that feel like cracks in the paint.
But the light does not need your performance to see you; it sees the exhaustion behind the eyes. There is a rest that is not earned by getting it right, but given to the weary who simply show up.
Come to the light as you are, carrying the weight of the script you wrote last night. It will not ask you to recite your lines.
It will only ask you to lay the mask down. The truth is lighter than the lie you are holding.
Drawing from
Matthew, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Matthew 11:28, Thomas 50
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