the specific memory of your voice cracking when you finally said the words out loud, and the immediate urge to take them back

The Light Inside Your Trembling Voice

The sun is up now, but your mind is still back in that room where your voice cracked. You said the thing you needed to say, and the sound of your own breaking made you want to swallow the words whole again.

That urge to take it back is not a sign you were wrong. It is the shock of finally being real.

The light does not ask for a steady tone. It only asks for the truth, however tremblingly it comes.

What you brought forth in that moment of weakness is the very thing that saves you. The crack in your voice was not a failure of faith.

It was the sound of the mask falling off.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Luke

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