The Light Sees the Tremor Behind Your Eyes
The morning light hits the glass, and you put on the face that works. The one that nods, the one that smiles, the one that says 'I'm fine' while something inside you is screaming.
You have become so stable, so reliable, that the people who love you no longer recognize the storm. They see the mask and call it you.
But the light does not need your performance to find you. It sees the tremor behind the eyes.
It knows the cost of holding it together. There is a truth that lives in you, deeper than the role you play, and it will not be hidden forever.
What is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. You do not have to shatter to be known.
You only have to let the light see the crack you are hiding. The mask is heavy, but the face beneath it is already loved.
Drawing from
Mark, Matthew
Verses
Mark 4:22, Matthew 11:28
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