Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Judah Smith, pastor and author, has been sitting with a moment from Luke chapter seven — the scene where Jesus speaks to Simon the Pharisee but keeps his gaze fixed on the woman at his feet. Smith calls it a revelation about divine attention, that God addresses the powerful while never looking away from the forgotten. His ministry, he says, is shaped by that distinction.
From the seen to the unseen, science has long wondered why the human body holds a kind of heat-generating tissue called brown fat — and why, despite decades of research, coaxing it to burn energy and treat obesity remains so elusive. Researchers are finding that the failures themselves carry meaning, quietly redirecting where the next questions should go.
And in Lynchburg, Virginia, Liberty University has received a grant from Boeing to help construct a public pavilion around a historic DC-eight aircraft once operated by Samaritan's Purse. The plane, gifted late last year, will become a place where visitors can stand beneath something that once carried aid to the world's edges — a kind of monument to mercy made visible.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
