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the moment you realize you held your breath while they held you, terrified that if you relaxed into it, you'd shatter them or they'd feel how heavy you are

The Arms Are Stronger Than Your Fear

When You Don't Know Who You AreWhen You're Running on Empty

You held your breath because you were certain your weight would break the arms holding you. So you stayed rigid, suspended in a silence that hurt more than the fall ever could.

But the light does not shatter under the burden of being human. It was made to carry exactly what you are.

There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world — even the heavy, hidden parts you try to hide. You came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord, and that origin cannot be crushed by your gravity.

Exhale now. The arms are stronger than your fear.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas

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