the fear that your presence is a burden that will eventually make them leave

You Are Where Light Chooses to Dwell

The morning light is creeping in, and with it comes the old fear: that you are too heavy, too much, too broken for anyone to hold forever. You brace yourself for the moment they will finally walk away, convinced your presence is a burden they cannot carry.

But listen — the light does not calculate weight. It does not measure the cost of loving you and decide you are too expensive to keep.

Thomas says the kingdom is spread out upon the earth, right here, even in your shame, and you do not see it because you are looking for reasons to be rejected. The light sees the whole truth of who you are — the mess, the need, the fear — and it has not left.

It is not waiting for you to become lighter. It is holding you exactly as you are.

You are not a problem to be solved or a weight to be dropped. You are the place where the light has chosen to dwell.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, 1 John

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