The Dawn Has Broken Without Your Help
The sun is up, and the mask is already back on your face before your feet hit the floor. You are terrified that if you stop performing the version of yourself they love, they will finally see the fraud and leave.
But the light does not need your performance to find you. There is a kingdom inside you that exists before you say a word, before you do a single task.
You do not have to build it with your effort. It is already there, spread out upon the earth, hidden in plain sight.
The people who love you are not loving a costume. They are loving the light that shines through the cracks in your armor.
Stop trying to hold up the sky. The dawn has already broken without your help.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 3, Gospel of Thomas 113
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