Let the Armor Fall Away
The water has turned cold, but you stay standing because moving means feeling. You are holding your breath against a sob that has been climbing your throat since morning, terrified that if you let it out, you will shatter.
But the light is not afraid of your breaking. It knows that sometimes the only way to stop shaking is to finally let the tears come.
You do not have to hold this alone. The weight you are carrying is too heavy for one pair of hands, and the light is already here, not to fix you, but to catch what falls.
The sob is not a failure. It is the sound of the armor finally coming off.
Drawing from
Matthew 26:38-39, Gospel of Mary 5:4-5
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