The Light Shines Before You Wake
The sun is up, and the mask is already back on your face. You are moving, performing, making sure no one sees the crack in the foundation.
There is a terror whispering that if you stop doing, if you stop proving, you will finally be seen as nothing. But listen.
The light does not need your performance to exist. It was shining before you woke up.
It will shine after you put the armor down. You are not the mask.
You are the light behind it. And that light cannot be earned, and it cannot be lost.
You are already seen, and you are already enough.
Drawing from
Matthew, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Matthew 6:22-23, Gospel of Thomas Saying 24
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