Welcome to The Light, where we sit with the stories that ask something of us.
A philosopher writing in Nautilus this week invites us to reconsider envy, that ancient condemned emotion. Rather than a sin to suppress, she suggests it can act as a mirror, reflecting what we genuinely value and pointing us toward who we still hope to become. The feeling, held rightly, becomes a compass.
From the Gaza Strip, a quieter and more urgent testimony. The Christian community there, once thousands strong, has dwindled to just a few hundred souls. Those who remain describe years of displacement, fear, and erasure under Hamas rule since two thousand seven. One believer's words carry the weight of the whole: you cannot forget about us.
And in a moment of private grief made public, pastor Bob Kauflin of Sovereign Grace Music has shared that his wife Julie died suddenly during what was simply a date night together. He speaks of waves of tears and an ache without comparison, and yet, tenderly, of a faith that holds him in the not-yet.
Three voices this hour, each asking us to look more honestly at longing, at witness, and at love. Carry the light gently.
