You Are the Light, Not the Reflection
The sun is up, but the face in the mirror feels like a stranger wearing your skin. You look into your own eyes and see a hollow where a person used to be.
That terror of not recognizing yourself is not the end of the story—it is the friction of the old self cracking open. The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world long before you forgot your name.
It does not need you to recognize it first; it only needs to shine. You are not the reflection that confuses you.
You are the light that makes the reflection visible.
Drawing from
John, Sophia of Jesus Christ
Verses
John 1:9, Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:5-8
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