Welcome to The Light, where we pause together and let the world breathe for a moment.
A teenage boy sits in the back of a car after a church event, and something shifts. Kirk Cousins heard Gary Haugen of International Justice Mission speak about human trafficking, and the prayer he whispered on the ride home quietly redirected the whole current of his life. It is a reminder that a single moment of honest attention can become the seed of a life's purpose.
From one kind of inner reckoning to another, the Enneagram has found its way into the spiritual conversation of our time. For many, naming their deepest fear, truly naming it, is the first act of courage. The ancient framework offers not a label, but a lantern, illuminating the anxious places we have long walked past without stopping.
And then there is the algae in the Reflecting Pool in Washington, those small green organisms doing what living things do, absorbing light, multiplying, persisting. A writer finds unexpected joy in their stubborn resilience, and perhaps that is the quieter story here. That life, in its most modest forms, keeps finding a way forward even in neglected waters.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
