The twelve gates
You are walked — one true step at a time, at the pace of grace — through twelve gates of remembering.
IArrival
She stops performing.
TruthI am allowed to enter love exactly as I am.
IIStillness
The noise begins to soften.
TruthStillness will not destroy me. It may reveal me.
IIITears
The heart begins to thaw.
TruthMy tears are not my undoing. They are my return.
IVThe Body
Truth becomes felt.
TruthMy body has been remembering for me.
VFear
Fear is revealed as protection.
TruthMy fear is not my identity. It is showing me where love must enter.
VIThe Old Story
The hidden sentence is named.
TruthI have been living under a sentence God never spoke.
VIIThe False Self
The survival identity is seen.
TruthThe woman I became to survive is not the fullness of who I am.
VIIISurrender
Control begins to loosen.
TruthI am not meant to carry what only God can hold.
IXThe Beloved
Shame meets union.
TruthI am already held within God’s love.
XRemembrance
True identity begins to rise.
TruthI am not the name pain gave me.
XIAnointing
Calling rises from belovedness, not proving.
TruthMy calling flows from being loved, not from trying to earn love.
XIIReturn
Truth becomes embodied.
TruthOne small act from truth is already a return.