Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
In the heart of Central Africa, an Ebola outbreak continues to reach across borders, touching the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Faith-based organization World Relief is moving emergency resources into the region, while the United States has committed thirteen million dollars in foreign assistance, alongside new travel restrictions, as the world watches and hopes.
Closer to home, an Illinois restaurant owner found himself staring down the barrel of a gun, losing nearly ten thousand dollars worth of jewelry in a brazen robbery. He did not speak aloud, but in the silence of that moment, he called out to God in his mind. He walked away with his life, and that, he says, was the only answer that mattered.
And then there is a quieter crisis, one unfolding on hockey rinks and soccer fields across America. A sitting United States senator writes of missing votes in Congress to watch his fourteen-year-old son play in a sixty-game season spanning multiple states. He asks what we are teaching our children when youth sports become this expensive, this consuming, this relentless in their demand.
Three stories, each asking something of us. That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
