Welcome to The Light, your quiet-hour reflection.
There is something quietly courageous about naming what you love. Musician Gable Price spent years deflecting the question of whether his band was a Christian band, wary of the walls a label can build. Now he has decided that honesty costs less than evasion, and that writing about Jesus and God is simply what he does.
From the personal to the biological, science reminds us this week that even our aging is a kind of signature. Researchers have found that at the molecular level, no two people age in quite the same way. We each dissolve into time along our own private path, which is both humbling and, if you sit with it, rather beautiful.
And in Texas, a Brazilian pastor who had quietly self-deported when his visa expired has returned to his congregation following a change in immigration rules. His story holds something worth pausing over, the way a community waits, the way belonging can be interrupted and then, sometimes, restored.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
