The Light Behind Your Mask
The room is loud, but you are the only one holding your breath. You smile at the right moments, you nod, you pour the drink, all while hiding the truth that if they really saw you, they would leave.
The mask is heavy tonight, and the exhale feels impossible because you are terrified that stopping the performance means losing the love. But listen — there is a silence inside you that does not need to be earned, and it does not need to be hidden.
The light does not wait for you to take the mask off before it stays; it is already sitting with you behind the eyes you are trying to protect. You are not alone in the crowd because the very thing you fear they will reject is the only thing that has never left you.
The real you is not a secret to be kept; it is the only part of you that is actually home.
Drawing from
1 John 4:18, John 15:15
Verses
1 John 4:18, John 15:15
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