Fire Walking, I Walked On Fire

I am a fire walker. What does that really mean? Of course it means that I walked over a bed of hot coals, but deeper than that, what is a fire walker?

The answer to that question is probably different for every fire walker, so I'm going to give you my answer.

A fire walker is a person that for some reason felt led to walk on fire. It's someone who was ready to admit that their perception isn't reality. It's someone who opened their mind, perhaps for a short time, perhaps for the rest of their lives, to the possibility that they could do the impossible.

During our training session before the Fire Walk we confronted fears and were taught how to use the Fire Walk to handle our fears in the future.

There were many valuable lessons learned during our training through different exercises, but what stands out in my mind is "I don't really want things, I want feelings. The only thing that's stopping me is FEAR". Think about that for a moment, "The only thing that is stopping me is FEAR.". Did it sink in? "The only thing that is stopping me is FEAR"

What you fear is as individual as your fingerprints, as is your response to fear. Fire Walking can change your response to fear if you will open yourself up to it. I know that I am forever changed because of this experience and I know that my response to fear will be different in the future.

During the training, we were asked to write something down that we want. What I want isn't important. What is important is how I would feel if I had that thing that I wrote down as well as what is stopping me from having what I wrote down.

So what is stopping me from having what I want? FEAR

So what would happen if FEAR was no longer a factor?

So back to the feeling that I wrote down on that paper during our training.

What would I feel if I had that thing that I wrote down?

Well my answer at first was a list of 5 words, but we were asked for one word. My one word was JOYFUL. I want to be full of joy. I want to be joyful. I want to have joy. Now if you know me you may think that I am already joyful, and then again you may not. Either way you are right, I am joyful at times, at times I'm not.

What I want is to be joyful all of the time. I want to be able to face fears with feelings of joy. I want to feel joy when I succeed. I want to feel joy when I fail. I want to feel joy in every area in my life at any time in my life, and now I can have that thanks to fire walking.

The bed of coals represent fear and the man standing at the end of the bed of coals waiting for me represented the Joy that I wanted. All I had to do was look forward and walk through my fear. And I did that.

I stood there 10ft away from a 10ft long bed of hot coals. I was staring at a member of Scott Goodknight's staff in the face, looking into his eyes but not really seeing him. He asked me what I wanted. "I WANT TO BE JOYFUL! " was my reply. I took a moment to anchor myself, to let my mind go to a place of strength and peace. I looked ahead not seeing the coals, not seeing the fear. I could only see Joy, Joy was waiting. I walked, I walked swiftly across the coals with my eyes looking into the face of Joy and when I reached the end of the bed of coals I wiped the fear from my feet and I embraced joy.

What does joy look like?

This picture was taken by my mama as soon as I finished walking over the coals. I was making my way to the back of the line and I was headed to kiss my babies over the fence when a girl in the crowd reached her hand out to me like I was a rockstar. I grabbed her hand and at that moment I felt Joyful, then my mama snapped the picture. What a powerful testimony this picture is.

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