Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Somewhere in the deep dark, two galaxies known as NGC seven two five three A and B are drifting toward one another across unimaginable distance. Astronomers call them twin spirits, and there is something tender in that — two vast systems of light and gravity, slowly, inevitably, choosing to become one.
From the cosmic to the human, a recovered voice from nineteenth century San Francisco reminds us that the hunger for shelter is ancient and unresolved. The philosopher Josiah Royce watched landlords of that city charge figures he called worthy of the Arabian Nights, and the people who paid them he called, with weary affection, stark mad. The housing crisis, it seems, did not begin with us.
And then there is the question of what moves within us. A reflection on the Holy Spirit describes ten ways an unseen presence works through human lives — saving, sealing, sanctifying. Whatever one believes, there is something worth sitting with in the idea that we are not entirely the authors of our own transformation.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
