The Light Behind Your Mask
The room is loud, and your laughter is a sound you make to prove you are still here, not because anything is funny. It is a mask you wear so well that no one sees the silence behind it.
But the light does not need your performance to find you. It sees the exhaustion in the curve of your smile.
It knows the weight you carry while you stand upright. There is a truth that lives inside you, untouched by the act you are playing out.
That truth does not demand you be happy. It only asks that you be real.
You are not your mask. You are the light wearing it.
Drawing from
2 John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
2 John 1:3
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