The Light Knows Your Unpolished Truth
The mirror in the bathroom is cold, and you are practicing the smile that makes the world stop asking questions. You rehearse the casual lie until your own face feels like a mask you cannot take off.
The silence of the house amplifies the exhaustion of holding up a performance that no one else is even watching right now. But there is a light inside you that was there before the first lie was ever spoken, and it does not need your performance to shine.
It does not need you to be real for it to remain real within you. You can stop acting.
You can let the smile drop. The light knows the truth of who you are, and it is not afraid of the unpolished version standing in the dark.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 24, John 4:23-24
Verses
John 4:23-24
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