Welcome to The Light, where we pause and consider what matters most.
Eight years have passed since fourteen-year-old Leah Sharibu was taken from a girls' school in northeastern Nigeria, and she remains the only one of her classmates still in captivity. Global voices continue pressing Nigerian officials to act, while a young woman waits in silence that the world must not forget.
From one kind of abandonment to another — thousands of young people aging out of foster care have long been excluded from financial tools that most families take for granted. A quiet policy change now opens savings accounts to these young adults without requiring a parent's signature, offering something as simple and profound as a financial foundation to stand on.
And within faith communities, a gentler reckoning is underway. Many who carry wounds from institutional church life are finding their way into smaller, more intimate gatherings — microchurches built on proximity and trust rather than program and platform. It is a reminder that belonging, when it heals, often does so in small rooms.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
