hearing your own voice on a recording and feeling a visceral cringe because the tone sounds foreign and hollow

The Dawn Does Not Wait For Perfection

The sun is just breaking the horizon, and you are hearing your own voice recorded, sounding foreign and hollow. That cringe you feel is the gap between who you think you are and the sound that returns to you.

But listen — the light does not cringe at your voice. The rising sun comes to shine on those living in darkness, not to correct the tone of their speech.

It rises anyway, tender and steady, indifferent to your self-judgment. You are not the hollow sound you fear; you are the vessel the light has already filled.

The dawn does not wait for you to sound perfect before it arrives. It breaks simply because it is morning.

Drawing from

Luke, Sophia of Jesus Christ

Verses

Luke 1:78-79, Sophia of Jesus Christ 100:1-5

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