the silent calculation of how much of your real pain you can hide before the people holding you realize you are too heavy and drop you

Stop Hiding Your Weight

You are doing the math right now, aren't you? Calculating exactly how much of your ache you can show before the people around you decide you are too heavy to carry.

You trim your words. You swallow the tears.

You make yourself small so you won't be dropped. But the light does not do weight limits.

It saw you under the fig tree before you ever said a word. It knows the calculation you are making, and it is not impressed by your silence.

You are not a burden to be managed. You are a person to be held.

The hands that hold you are not tired. They are strong enough for the whole truth.

Stop hiding the weight. Let them carry it.

Drawing from

John 1:48, Gospel of Thomas 77

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