The Light Rises Without A Script
The sun is coming up, and your mind is already rehearsing conversations that haven't happened yet. You are playing out every wrong thing you might say, terrified of the stumble before you've even taken the first step.
But notice how the light arrives without a script. It does not calculate the perfect angle or worry about casting a shadow.
It simply rises. There is a version of you that exists before the fear kicks in — a self that knows the truth without needing to prove it.
Bring that self forth today, not the one constructed from anxiety. If you wait until you feel perfectly safe to speak, you will never speak at all.
The light does not ask for your perfection; it asks for your presence. You are not defined by the words you fear you'll lose, but by the silence that holds you when you do.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
Verses
Matthew 6:34
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