“Truth feels like fire, but it forges freedom.”
Truth is rarely comfortable. It does not slip in quietly. It burns. It sears through denial, shreds your excuses, and scorches the illusions you have been clinging to. That is why most people avoid it — because truth feels like standing in flames.
Here is the slap: the fire is not there to destroy you. It is there to free you.
Yes, truth burns away what is false. It sets fire to relationships built on performance. It reduces old identities and outdated stories to ash. It consumes everything you thought you needed to survive. And in the middle of that fire, it feels like loss. It feels like devastation. But if you stay long enough to face it, you realize the fire is also a forge.
On the other side of truth’s burn is freedom. Freedom from pretending. Freedom from carrying lies too heavy for your Spirit. Freedom from cages that kept you small. Truth does not leave you weaker — it leaves you sharper, stronger, lighter. It shapes you into someone who no longer needs to hide, edit, or apologize for existing.
So yes, truth feels like fire. It always will. But the fire is sacred. It does not punish. It purifies. And the only thing it consumes is what was never really you to begin with.
More Food For Thought:
What truth in my life have I been avoiding because I fear the burn?
What illusions or lies need to be set on fire so I can finally be free?
How might freedom feel if I let truth forge me instead of fighting it?
Truth will burn you. But it will also set you free. Let the fire do its work.
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