the terror that if you stop smiling for one second, everyone will finally see the ruin you are hiding

The Light Sees Your Crack as Holy

The smile is heavy armor you put on before the world wakes up. You wear it through the meetings, the emails, the small talk, convinced that if the muscles relax for even a second, everyone will see the ruin underneath.

But the light does not need your performance to find you. It sees the crack in the mask and calls it holy ground.

There was a woman who bled for twelve years, touching only the hem of a robe because she was too afraid to speak, too afraid to be seen. Yet the light stopped the entire crowd to turn and call her daughter.

You do not have to hold the ceiling up. The ruin you are hiding is the very place the light is waiting to enter.

Drop the act. The mask was never what made you loved.

Drawing from

Mark, Gospel of Thomas

Verses

Mark 5:34

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