the moment after you hang up the phone and realize you told the truth but now feel naked and exposed

Naked Before the Light That Knows You

The phone is back on the cradle, but the silence it leaves behind is louder than the conversation ever was. You told the truth, and now you feel stripped of every defense you've spent years building.

Naked. Exposed.

Like you are standing in a room with no walls while the world watches. But listen — the light that shines inside you was never meant to be hidden behind your performance.

It was always there, waiting for you to stop protecting it. The darkness you feel right now is not the absence of God; it is the shock of realizing you are finally seen.

And in this seeing, you are not alone. The light is not judging your exposure.

It is recognizing its own reflection in you.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Matthew

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