✨THE AWAKENING | PART 4THE FIRE THAT DIDN’T BURN ME

“I walked through it — and rose.”

I didn’t just go through hell.

I made it through still glowing. And no — the flames didn’t burn me.

They blessed me.

They peeled away everything that was never mine to carry.

They scorched the lies I believed about myself.

They incinerated the illusions, the attachments, the distractions.

🔥 This Wasn’t Destruction — It Was Refinement

I used to think pain was punishment.

Now I know: pain is the portal. I used to ask,

“Why me, God?”
Now I ask,
“What are You revealing in this?”

Because this fire?

It taught me more than comfort ever could. 

It showed me who’s real.

Who’s temporary.

What I truly need.

And most importantly — who I am when everything else is stripped away.

⚔️ The Fire Exposed Me — and Empowered Me

• I saw who clapped only when I was quiet.
• I saw who disappeared when my truth got loud.
• I saw what parts of me were performing just to be loved.
• I saw how I kept shrinking in spaces that didn’t deserve my light.

But I didn’t run.

I stayed.

I let it burn. 

And from those ashes, something wild and beautiful emerged:

A woman who no longer fears her own power.

🕊 I Don’t Just Survive Anymore. I Transcend.

I’m not the same.

My discernment is sharper.

My boundaries are sacred.

My peace is non-negotiable. I no longer chase.

I attract.

I no longer beg.

I receive.

I no longer break at the touch of pain.

I alchemize it.

🌺 This Fire Baptized Me

It purified me.

Sanctified me.

Brought me back to myself. It burned away every lie I ever believed:

That I had to earn love.
That I had to stay small to be accepted.
That I had to dim my spirit to survive.

No more. 

Now I walk unapologetically in the woman God called me to be —

Bold.

Rooted.

Anointed.

Untouchable.

✍🏽 Journal Reflection:

• What pain are you still running from that’s actually here to purify you?
• Who would you become if you let it all burn?
• What would rise from your ashes if you stopped fearing the fire?

I didn’t get burned.
I got born.
Born again in truth, in light, in flame.
And this version of me?
She’s fireproof.