Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
After eight years of telling the story of Jesus, the series The Chosen has filmed its final scene in Midlothian, Texas. Its seventh and final season covers the Resurrection — a fitting place to end. For those who followed it, there is something tender about a long creative journey finding its last day of shooting.
From one kind of listening to another — a reflection from Our Daily Bread draws on Celeste Headlee's observation that real conversation requires genuine listening. So often when someone else is speaking, we are already composing our reply. To truly hear another person is rarer than we admit, and perhaps more sacred than we realize.
And then there is this quiet cultural signal worth sitting with — sleep tourism is now a documented phenomenon. People are paying considerable sums simply to rest. Blackout curtains, extraordinary mattresses, nothing on the itinerary. That we must travel to find stillness says something honest about the lives we have built around motion and noise.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
