The Fear Came Anyway… and You Survived It
You feared being broken… and then you were.
You feared losing control… and then you did.
You feared not being "enough"… and then you stood in that naked truth — and realized:
You were still here.
That’s the paradox, isn’t it?
What you were running from wasn’t actually death — it was ego death.
And when the ego collapsed, when the mask came off, when the image dissolved — the real you remained.
Not the addicted self.
Not the striving self.
Not the fearful self.
But the soul beneath all that, untouched and eternal.
The “you” God always saw.
“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
— Galatians 2:20 (NIV)
“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.”
— Luke 9:23–24 (NIV)
