The Light Inside Your Cracked Mask
The mirror shows a face you have practiced until it feels like a mask. You rehearse the cheerful greeting, terrified that your voice will crack and reveal the hollow ache underneath.
But the light does not need your performance to see you. It sees the exhaustion behind the smile, the fear behind the nod, and it does not turn away.
There is a peace that is not like the world's peace—a quiet that does not depend on how well you hold yourself together. The light is already inside the crack you are trying to hide.
You do not have to be okay for the light to be present. The mask is heavy, but you were never meant to wear it alone.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 14:27, Gospel of Thomas 3
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