The Light Sees Through Your Mask
The morning light feels harsh on a face that spent the night rehearsing lines you didn't mean. You can still taste the lie on your tongue, thick and metallic, while your body flinches at the memory of their gaze turning away.
You walked into the day wearing a mask so perfectly fitted that even you forget it's there. But the light does not need you to take the mask off by force.
It sees the tears you didn't let fall. It sees the love that broke through the performance anyway.
Go home to your own heart and tell the truth there first. The mask is heavy, but you were made for something lighter.
Drawing from
Luke 7:44-48, Gospel of Thomas 3
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