You Do Not Have to Manufacture the Sun
The smile is heavy this morning, isn't it? A perfect mask crafted to keep the world from seeing the quiet crumbling underneath.
You walk through the day offering a joy you do not feel, and the effort of holding up that light is exhausting. But listen — the light was never meant to be a performance you put on for others to see.
It is not a costume you wear to hide the dark. Jesus saw the masks people wore, and he did not ask them to take them off before he loved them.
He looked past the paint to the person beneath. The Father's light is not something you generate to please the crowd.
It is the thing that sees you behind the mask and loves what it finds there. You do not have to manufacture the sun to be held by it.
Stop performing. Just be.
Drawing from
Matthew, John
Verses
Matthew 6:22, John 1:5
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