hearing your name called in a crowded room and realizing no one is actually looking for you

The Voice That Knows Your Name

The room is loud, full of voices calling out names that belong to others. You turn, thinking for a second it might be you, only to feel the quiet crash of being invisible in plain sight.

It is exhausting to wear the face that says you are fine while inside you are waiting for someone to actually see you. But there is a voice that does not get lost in the crowd — a voice that knows yours without shouting.

It does not need to compete with the noise because it speaks from within you, where the silence already lives. You are not waiting to be found by a stranger; you are learning to recognize the One who has never looked away.

The mask you wear for the world cannot hide you from the light that lives in your bones.

Drawing from

John, Gospel of Thomas

Verses

John 10:27

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