The Light That Has Already Seen You

The night is quiet enough now that you can hear the things you've been hiding from yourself. The inventory of your shame feels heavier when there is no noise to cover it.

You are terrified that if someone truly saw the whole of you—the broken parts, the secret thoughts, the things you whisper only to the dark—they would walk away. But listen.

There is a light that has already seen every corner of your heart. It knows the worst thing you have ever done and the deepest fear you have ever held.

And it has not moved. It is not shocked by your darkness because it is brighter than your darkest moment.

You do not have to clean yourself up before you are loved. The love is already there, waiting in the quiet.

You are fully known. And you are fully held.