The Dawn Does Not Ask Perfection
The sun is up, but the shadow of that lie is still stretching across your morning. You watched them believe the story you built to protect yourself, and the silence in the room afterwards has felt louder than any accusation.
You think the light cannot reach through the mask you wore. But there is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—even the parts you tried to hide.
The truth was already standing there, waiting for you to stop running. If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.
The dawn does not ask you to be perfect before it breaks; it simply breaks, and the darkness has to leave. You are not your lie; you are the light that remembers the truth.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
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