The Light Needs No Performance From You
This is the hour when the mask feels heaviest. You catch yourself smoothing the edges of a lie, telling the circle you are at peace just to keep the warmth alive.
But the light does not need your performance to stay close. It was there before the first word of comfort left your lips.
There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world. Even now.
Even in the silence you are trying to fill. You do not have to pretend to be whole for the light to hold you.
The lie is the only thing keeping you from the rest that is already yours. You are not the performance you give to others.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
Verses
Matthew 11:29-30
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