Welcome to The Light, where we pause together in the quiet between the noise.
Sadie Robertson Huff has released a new book this week, It's Not Personal, a reflection on identity and self-understanding. At its heart is something deeply human — a letter from her mother that she says reframed how she sees herself, not through the world's expectations, but through something more enduring and more tender.
From one kind of voice to another — dozens of lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are now calling on House leadership to invite Pope Leo the Fourteenth to address a joint session of Congress. They describe him as a unifying presence, and as the first American-born pope, he carries a symbolic weight that seems to reach across the ordinary lines of division, which is itself worth sitting with for a moment.
And the new pope continues his journey through South America, greeting the faithful gathered in Lima and looking ahead to Chiclayo, the city where he served as bishop for years. There is something quietly moving about returning to a place that shaped you, now carrying a mantle you could not have imagined then.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
