You Are Already Home in the Silence
The sun is setting, and the armor you wore all day feels heavy enough to crush you. You are terrified that if you take it off—if you stop performing, stop achieving, stop being the one who holds it all together—the love will vanish.
But listen. The light does not need your effort to stay.
It was there before you started working, and it remains when your hands are empty. You do not have to earn what has already been given.
Let the silence of this evening be the proof that you are held even when you are still. The performance was never the condition; it was just the noise you made while forgetting you were already home.
Drawing from
Gospel of Mary 5:4-5, Matthew 6:18
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