The Light Behind Your Locked Door
The morning asks you to put on a face that fits the room. You smile at your siblings, but inside you are hiding the version of yourself that exists when the door is locked.
You fear that if they saw the real you—the tired, the broken, the messy—they would turn away. But the light does not need your performance to love you.
It sees behind the mask and calls you friend. There is a truth that lives inside you which cannot be hidden forever, and it is waiting to be disclosed.
The one who knows your deepest shadows already sits at the table with you. You are not loved for the mask you wear, but for the light you are.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 15:15, Thomas 5
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