The Light Knows You Before the Mask
The screen goes black, and for a second, the room feels too quiet. You catch your own reflection in the dark glass, and the eyes staring back feel like a stranger's. Like someone who has carried too much for too long. Like someone you don't know anymore.
But the light knows you. It saw you before the exhaustion set in. It saw you before the mask hardened. In the quiet of this evening, when the performance finally stops, the light does not look away.
It sees the real you beneath the fatigue. And it says: go home to your own heart. Tell your own soul how much you are loved. You are not a stranger to the light. You are the place where the light lives.
Drawing from
Mark 5:19, Gospel of Thomas 70
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