rehearsing a casual greeting in the mirror just to prove your voice still works before leaving the house
The middle of the day demands a performance you do not feel ready to give. You stand before the mirror and rehearse a casual greeting, just to prove your voice still works before facing the world.
It feels like a deception, putting on a face that does not match the silence inside. But the light does not ask you to pretend.
It sees the effort it takes to simply speak. There is a voice within you that needs no rehearsal, no mirror, no audience to be real.
You do not have to manufacture the courage to leave the house. The light is already walking out the door with you, ahead of you, speaking through you before you say a word.
Drawing from
Mark 5:19, Gospel of Thomas 24
Verses
Mark 5:19, Thomas 24
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