Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
From two hundred and fifty miles above the earth, NASA astronaut Jessica Meir has given us something rare — a video of the aurora australis, the southern lights, rippling in silence over our planet. To watch it is to be reminded that beauty does not require an audience. It simply is.
Closer to the ground, and deeper into the ancient, a different kind of wonder has surfaced in the deserts of Qatar. Sand cats, elusive and almost mythic creatures once feared locally extinct, have been photographed for the first time in that country. Life, it seems, persists in the margins, quiet and unhurried, waiting to be found by those patient enough to look.
And within the Anglican Church in North America, a trial date has been set for former Archbishop Stephen Wood, a figure whose case has unsettled the denomination and prompted a serious examination of how institutions hold themselves accountable. There is something quietly necessary about that reckoning — the willingness of a community to ask hard questions of itself.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
