Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
In Ohio, questions of truth and family loyalty are colliding in painful ways. Lydia Ford, wife of polygamous pastor Israel Ford, has publicly denied allegations made by her own daughter against her husband — a moment that asks us how institutions of faith can sometimes reshape what a parent allows herself to believe.
From that private fracture, we turn to a more public one. Laura Lentz has revealed that her daughter attempted suicide at just fourteen years old, weeks before her father Carl Lentz's infidelity became public. It is a reminder that the children of visible leaders carry invisible weight, and that the cost of public collapse is rarely borne by those who caused it.
And then, from the human to the cosmic — astronomers have recorded a collapsing star whose afterglow burned brighter than its entire galaxy, releasing roughly a billion years of the sun's energy in a single pencil-thin beam. There is something quietly humbling in that. The universe, it seems, has its own ways of reminding us how small our certainties are.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
