Welcome to The Light, where we slow down long enough to hear what the day is trying to say.
In the past seventy-two hours, something shifted in the architecture of American foreign policy. Donald Trump lifted sanctions on Russian diesel imports, threatened to withhold intelligence from Ukraine, and signaled a posture that many longtime observers are calling an abandonment of decades of alliance-building. The question underneath the question is what promises mean when power decides to move on.
From the realm of geopolitics, we find ourselves drawn inward, to the strange democracy of sleep. Poet Will Dowd invited Jorge Luis Borges into his dreams, seeding his unconscious with the Argentine master's voice and waiting to see what emerged. It is a reminder that creation does not always begin where we think it does, that meaning sometimes arrives through doors we forgot we left open.
And from the world of inheritance and reckoning, Tammy Sue Bakker, daughter of the late televangelist Jim Bakker, has stepped forward to apologize to those harmed by her family's ministry, and to direct people toward donations for LGBTQ+ communities. It is a quiet act, perhaps, but apology offered publicly carries its own particular weight.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
