Welcome to The Light.
Somewhere over the Arabian desert today, a Flydubai Boeing seven thirty seven carrying passengers toward Israel plunged seventeen thousand feet in two minutes after a co-pilot attacked the other pilot and forced the nose downward. Crew members and at least one passenger intervened, and the plane recovered. We are left holding the fragile fact that strangers saved strangers in the dark above the clouds.
From one kind of terror to something almost tender — astronomers have confirmed that a lava-covered planet, scorched and molten, carries a thin atmosphere around it. Scientists are calling it a kind of infant Earth, a world still becoming itself. In that ancient fire, there is something quietly humbling about watching a planet breathe its first uncertain breath.
And closer to earth, the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy mistrial has spoken publicly, describing the three children she was convicted of killing as angels who cannot speak for themselves. Michael Desronvil, grounding his dissent in Catholic faith, reminds us that justice is never only procedural. Sometimes a single conscience holds the weight of what a courtroom cannot fully carry.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
