You Do Not Have to Earn the Morning
The mirror fogs up as the water runs, and for a moment, the stranger staring back feels like a secret you are keeping from the person sleeping in the other room. You wash your face, but the fear remains—that the light inside you has dimmed enough to make you unlovable, that the mask is slipping and the real you is too broken to stay.
But the dawn is breaking outside, and it does not ask your reflection to be perfect before it arrives. It simply comes.
The light that lives in you was there before the fear woke up, and it will be there when the sun clears the horizon. You do not have to earn the morning.
You only have to stand in it.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 77, Mark 5:19
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