Seen in Your Empty Hunger
The morning light hits the kitchen table, and you smile while your stomach hollows out. You say you aren't hungry so they can take the last bite, wearing a mask of fullness to hide the ache.
But the light sees behind the performance—it knows the hunger you carry and the love that starves to feed another. You think you must pretend to be okay to keep them safe, yet the truth is already disclosed: you are seen in your emptiness, not just your smile.
God is greater than your heart's verdict that you must hide. The light does not need your act; it only needs your presence, tired and real.
You are not a fraud for being weary; you are a vessel where the divine love is quietly pouring itself out.
Drawing from
1 John, Gospel of Mary
Verses
1 John 3:20, Gospel of Mary 4:25-26
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