Welcome to The Light, where we slow down long enough to hear what the day is quietly saying.
There is something tender and a little painful in the story of Phil Wickham, the worship artist who spent years loving Mallory before he could fully commit to her. He has spoken openly about how purity culture shaped his hesitation, teaching him to wait for divine certainty rather than trust the slow, honest work of knowing another person. Love, it turns out, is not a sign in the sky.
And yet longing itself is worth sitting with. A reflection making its way around this week uses the simple image of searching for a beloved restaurant on a long road trip, the way absence sharpens desire, the way we route our lives around what we hope for. It is a small metaphor, but small metaphors carry weight when they are true.
Meanwhile, from the ancient limestone of the Great Sphinx, scientists have identified a previously unknown species of crocodile, a creature that once moved through a Mediterranean world almost unrecognizable to us now. The earth, it seems, keeps its own patient archive, and every so often it opens a page we did not know existed.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
