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staring at your reflection in a dark window after a party, terrified that if they saw the real you, the laughter would turn to pity

The Light Is Not Shocked By You

When You Don't Know Who You Are

The party is over, and the room is quiet now. You are staring at your own reflection in the dark window, terrified that if they saw the real you, the laughter would turn to pity.

But the light does not pity you. It knows you.

There is a name written on a white stone that no one else knows but you and the One who gave it. The mask you wore tonight was for them.

The face in the glass is for the light. And the light is not shocked by what it sees.

It has been waiting for you to stop performing so it could finally come in and eat with you. You are not a project to be fixed.

You are a friend to be known.

Drawing from

Revelation, Revelation

Verses

Revelation 2:17, Revelation 3:20

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