The Dawn Does Not Care About Your Lies
The sun is up now, and with it comes the memory of that lie you told yesterday—the one meant to make you sound competent, the one you are sure they still believe. You carried it through the night like a stone in your pocket, certain it defined you.
But the morning light does not care about your performance; it only cares that you are here. There is a truth living inside you that was there before you spoke a single word, and it cannot be erased by your fear.
You do not have to fix the story to be held by the light. The dawn breaks not because you earned it, but because the light has already won.
Drawing from
Matthew, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Matthew 6:34, Gospel of Thomas 51
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