You Are the Light Seeing It
The middle of the day is when the mask feels heaviest, when you catch your reflection and wonder who that stranger is staring back at you. You have been performing okayness for hours, smiling while something inside you fractures.
But the face you do not recognize is not the truth — it is just the exhaustion of carrying a weight you were never meant to hold. The light that lives within you was there before the performance started, and it remains untouched by the roles you play.
It does not need you to be anyone other than who you are right now, in this quiet moment between tasks. You are not the reflection; you are the light seeing it.
Drawing from
2 John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
2 John 1:2, Thomas 3
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