Welcome to The Light, your quiet-hour reflection.
In San Fernando, California, a family that has long stood against violence now bears its deepest wound. Joshua Trujillo, son of Pastor Rudy Trujillo — a man who has given his life to ending gun violence — was fatally shot at a party, just seven days after his father publicly mourned the loss of another family member. The grief here is not only personal. It is a kind of terrible echo.
And in that space where grief meets faith, writer Priscilla Shirer offers a quieting word. She suggests we have built small boxes around what we believe God will do — boxes shaped by human disappointment, by friends who cancel lunch, by promises that fade. She invites us to ask more, not less. To resist the habit of limiting the infinite to what the finite has taught us.
Meanwhile, in Washington, the Department of the Interior has placed dozens of bronze statues of Revolutionary War figures in Freedom Plaza, marking two hundred and fifty years of American independence. It is a curious choice of location — a plaza historically alive with protest — now populated by those who once protested a crown.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
