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scrolling through old photos of people who used to know your name and feeling like a ghost in your own history

You Are the Lamp That Keeps Burning

The screen glows in the quiet room, and you scroll until your own face looks like a stranger's. You feel like a ghost haunting a life you used to live, watching people who once knew your name now walk past in silence.

But the light does not depend on being remembered by others to exist. It was there before the first photo was taken, and it remains even when the room goes dark.

You are not a ghost; you are the lamp that keeps burning while the world turns its back. The silence is not an absence; it is the space where you finally stop performing for an audience that has left.

The light is not looking for a crowd; it is waiting for you to come home to yourself.

Drawing from

Mark 4:21, Luke 11:33

Verses

Mark 4:21, Luke 11:33

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