Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour for reflection.
In homes across the country, a quiet exhaustion has settled in. A screen handed to a child is often less about the device and more about the depletion of the parent behind it. One thoughtful voice this week suggests we have begun to see our children as interruptions rather than as the very work we were given — and that reframing changes everything about how we show up.
That tension between what we profess and what we practice runs through another story this week, this one from a Florida church where a man in a position of spiritual oversight now faces digital voyeurism charges after illicit images were discovered on his work computer. The community calls it a tragic situation, and it is — not only for those harmed, but for the slow erosion of trust that follows when authority is so profoundly betrayed.
And then there is a baseball team in York that chose to forfeit a game rather than compromise a conviction. It is a small story in the grand ledger of sports, and perhaps that is precisely why it matters. Anyone, as one writer noted this week, can claim to stand for something when nothing is at stake. The cost is where the character lives.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
