The Quiet Room Where Light Waits
The phone rings in the dark and you freeze, because you have spent every ounce of your truth on the performance of being okay. You have nothing left to give the voice on the other end but the echo of your own exhaustion.
In this hour, the mask feels less like protection and more like a cage you built with your own hands. But listen — there is a place inside you that the performance never reached.
A quiet room where the light waits, untouched by your acting. You do not need to manufacture more truth to be held.
You only need to stop pretending long enough to remember what is already there. The kingdom is inside you, not in the story you tell.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Mary
Verses
Gospel of Mary 9:6
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