Embraced Before You Are Whole

The mask you wore all night is heavy, and you are terrified that the morning will reveal the cracks beneath it. You fear that if they finally see the broken pieces, they will turn and walk away.

But remember the father who ran to his son before the apology was even spoken. He saw the shame from a distance and chose the embrace instead of the judgment.

The light inside you does not wait for you to be whole before it offers its warmth. It has been there, unchanged, while you performed perfection for a world that cannot see you.

You are not here to be fixed before you are loved. You are simply a drop of the light, and the light never rejects what it sent.