The Light Loves Who You Are
The mask is heavy this morning. You walk into the room carrying the terror that if they saw the cracks, they would walk away.
So you tighten the smile. You perform the okayness.
But the light does not love the performance. It loves the person underneath.
There is a truth inside you that you have been afraid to bring forth. If you keep it buried, it will destroy you.
But if you bring it forth — the flaws, the fear, the raw honesty — it will save you. The light already knows.
It saw you before you ever put the mask on. And it did not leave.
You are not loved for your cover. You are loved because you are there.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
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