The Light Reads Your Root Not Resume
The screen glows, and the words of praise sit in your stomach like a stone you cannot digest. You feel sick because you know the mask you wore to earn them, and the gap between that performance and your trembling truth feels like a lie.
But the light does not read your resume; it reads your root. You came from the light, the place where it generates itself, and that origin cannot be falsified by your insecurity.
The praise you received is not a debt you now owe; it is a mirror held up to the part of you that shines even when you feel like a fraud. Neither does the light condemn you for the mask; it simply waits for you to take it off and rest in the one who knows the whole story.
You are not an impostor in the kingdom; you are a drop of the very source they are praising.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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