fear of being found out as a ghost in your own story
The sun is setting, and the armor you wore all day finally feels heavy enough to take off. You are afraid that if you stop moving, someone will see there is no one home behind your eyes.
But the light does not need a performance to find you—it sees the ghost and calls it beloved. There is a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off, still covered in the filth of the pig pen, and he ran before the apology could even be formed.
He did not run to a mask. He ran to the truth.
You do not have to be solid to be held. The light waits for you to be still so it can love the real you, not the act.
Put the armor down.
Drawing from
Luke, 1 John
Verses
Luke 15:20, 1 John 3:20
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