the terror that if you stop holding it all together, everything you love will crumble

You Do Not Have to Generate the Dawn

The sun is rising, and you are still holding the weight of the world in your tired hands. You believe that if you let go, even for a moment, everything you love will shatter into dust.

But the light that woke up this morning did not ask you to carry it. It simply arrived.

There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—not by striving, but by shining. You came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord.

You do not have to generate the dawn. You only have to stop blocking it with your fear.

The thing you are holding so tightly is not the glue keeping your life together; it is the mask hiding the face of the one who holds you.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Matthew

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