Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
A grandmother pitches a dinosaur tent over her grandson's bed, and in the dark before sleep, he asks the question that lives in all of us — how will I find you if I need you. That small voice carries the whole weight of what it means to seek presence, to reach across uncertainty toward something that holds.
Reaching is also what grief does. A new study brings video evidence of humpback whales carrying their dead calves at the surface, refusing to release them. Scientists are careful with their language, but the behavior they describe is unmistakable — something that looks, from the outside, exactly like mourning. We are not alone in our losses, it seems, not even across the wide distance of species.
And loss of another kind moves through a Texas congregation, where a pastor is publicly advocating for a Bible translation that removes gendered titles for God, including Son of God and Lord. Whatever one believes about the theology, the moment asks a genuine question — what is the living center of a tradition, and what is the frame we built around it.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
