The Light Sees Past Your Mask
The question lands softly — 'How was your weekend?' — and suddenly you are building a cathedral of lies just to hide the rubble inside. You smile, you nod, you perform the version of yourself that seems safe to be around.
But the light does not need your script. It sees the exhaustion behind the eyes that say 'fine.' There is a truth that lives in you, quieter than any lie you could invent.
It does not demand you explain the wreckage. It simply knows.
You do not have to hold the mask up for the light to recognize you. The performance is for the world; the presence is for God.
The truth is not something you manufacture to survive the morning. The truth is the one thing that was never broken.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 3:21
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