Attacking the Light of Your Former Self in Me

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Attacking the Light of Your Former Self in Me

It occurred to me that perhaps, once upon a time, you were not so different from me.

Maybe you were humble.
Maybe you were kind.
Maybe you were generous, gentle, and sincere.

Then life happened.
Circumstances hardened you.
A switch was flipped, and the light in your heart dimmed.

Kindness was replaced with cruelty.
Sweetness gave way to bitterness.
Generosity surrendered to greed.

What if the abused became the abuser?
What if the wounded decided that darkness was safer than light?

And now, years later, when you look at me, you don’t just see me—
You see a reflection of who you used to be.

You see the version of yourself you abandoned to become who you are today.

In a darkened mind, the old self can feel weak, foolish, or naïve.
So when that former light appears in someone else, it doesn’t inspire—it provokes.
It reminds.
It exposes.

And instead of returning to the light, you try to silence it.

But here is the truth you cannot escape:
The light shining in my life is not merely the light of good character.
It is the light of Yahuah.

And what comes from Him cannot be extinguished by resentment, rage, or regret.

You can fight memory.
You can fight reflection.
You can fight conviction.

But you cannot put out the light that does not belong to me—
Because it was never mine to begin with.

It was given.

And what Yahuah gives, no one else can take away.