You Do Not Have To Hold It Together
The question lands softly in the morning air: how are you? And your throat closes, a tight knot of terror that if you speak, the whole mask will shatter.
You stand there, smiling with eyes that are screaming, terrified that one honest word will bring the ceiling down. But the light does not need your performance to see you — it sees the tremor behind the smile.
It knows the weight you are holding so the world won't have to. There is a peace that does not ask you to explain yourself, a rest that waits beneath the words you cannot say.
You do not have to hold it together for the light to hold you.
Drawing from
John, Matthew
Verses
John 14:27, Matthew 11:29-30
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