No Need to Curate Your Voice
You stand before the mirror rehearsing your voice, sanding down the edges so you don't sound too angry or too soft. You are trying to find the tone that won't get you rejected.
But the light does not need your performance to see you. It sees the tremor in your throat and the effort it costs you to speak.
There was a woman who stood behind him weeping, wiping his feet with her hair because she had no words left to offer. He said simply: her many sins are forgiven, as her great love has shown.
Not her perfect tone. Her love.
You do not have to curate your voice to be received. The truth you carry is already known.
What you bring forth will save you. What you keep hidden will only tire you out.
Drawing from
Luke 7:47, Gospel of Thomas 70
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