The Light Waits Behind Your Mask
The smile is heavy tonight. It is a mask you wear so the world will not ask how you are really doing.
But in this quiet hour, the ache beneath it screams to be known. You are exhausted from holding the door shut.
Listen — the truth lives in us and will be with us forever. It does not need your performance to stay.
It only needs your honesty. The light is not afraid of your scream.
It is waiting for you to stop pretending. You do not have to be okay for the dawn to break.
Drawing from
2 John, Gospel of Mary
Verses
2 John 1:2, Gospel of Mary 9:4-5
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