the silent shame of smiling at a colleague while feeling completely hollow inside

The Hollow Is Holy Ground

The sun is up, and you are too. You walked in, smiled at a colleague, and felt nothing behind your eyes but hollow space.

That gap between the face you show and the emptiness inside is not a lie — it is the ache of carrying yesterday's weight into a new day. But the light does not ask you to perform; it simply arrives, like dawn, whether you are ready or not.

You made it through the night. That waking up was an act of faith, even if it felt like automatic motion.

The kingdom is within you, not in the mask you wear for the morning meeting. The light sees the hollow, and it calls it holy ground.

Drawing from

Luke 17:21, Luke 1:78-79

Verses

Luke 17:21, Luke 1:78-79

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