Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Off the coast of California, researchers have caught something almost mythological on camera — a barreleye fish, its skull entirely transparent, its tubular eyes glowing green within a living window of flesh. It is a reminder that the deep ocean still holds forms of seeing we have barely imagined.
From the extraordinary to the achingly ordinary — Bob Kauflin, music director of Sovereign Grace, lost his wife of fifty years on a Monday evening during their weekly date night. She simply collapsed. There is something quietly devastating about love interrupted mid-routine, mid-sentence, mid-life. Grief, it seems, arrives most sharply through the familiar.
And in Islamabad, something quieter but no less significant unfolded. Religious leaders, judges, government officials, and representatives of the Holy See gathered together in Pakistan to speak of religious freedom and equal citizenship. That such a conversation is happening at all, across such distances of tradition and power, is itself a kind of light.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
