You Are the Light That Holds You
The night is gathering around you, and in this quiet, the old fear rises: that if you stop performing, the mask will fall and reveal nothing underneath. But there is a truth older than your effort—the light that shines in the darkness has not overcome it, not because you hold it up, but because it holds you.
You were not sent here to earn your place as a drop of light, but to let that light illuminate what the world cannot see. The terror you feel is not the evidence of your emptiness; it is the shadow cast by the very thing you are trying to hide.
You are not what you do; you are the light that does the doing.
Drawing from
John, Sophia of Jesus Christ
Verses
John 1:5, Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:5-16
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