The Light Behind Your Mask
The middle of the day is when the mask feels heaviest, especially when your own laughter sounds like a stranger wearing your skin. You are performing okayness while breaking inside, convinced the light has left the building.
But the light does not depend on your performance to exist — it is the ground you stand on, even when you feel like an impostor. There is a truth that lives in us and will be with us forever, deeper than the role you are playing right now.
That truth knows your real voice, even when you cannot hear it yourself. You are not the mask; you are the light shining behind it, waiting for you to stop pretending.
Drawing from
2 John, Matthew
Verses
2 John 1:2, Matthew 5:14
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