You weren't telling me something special about you, it's something that applies to us all.

 Everyone then, and more so now, we've lost our father. He was born in us, our soul, our spirit that is Holy, and the only way to get it back is to experience it alive in someone else. Sometimes that reawakens it in us. You and your environment kept it alive in you. You made of yourself a light, an example, from whom others could rekindle theirs.