The Light Behind Your Practiced Smile
The middle of the day is heavy with the things you haven't said. You are rehearsing a casual excuse right now, polishing a lie about why you've been distant, knowing you'll deliver it with that same practiced smile.
The mask feels glued on, heavy and hot, while the real you shrinks further inside. But the light does not need your performance.
It sees the exhaustion behind the eyes that are smiling. There is a truth living in you that was there before the distance began, before the first excuse was ever invented.
It waits for you to stop running. You do not have to explain yourself to be held.
The light is already sitting with you in the silence behind the smile.
Drawing from
John 1:14, Matthew 11:29-30
Verses
John 1:14, Matthew 11:29-30
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