Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Something remarkable has happened in the world of music. Skillet's song Monster, released back in two thousand nine, has become the first Christian song in history to surpass one billion streams on Spotify. That a fifteen-year-old rock anthem about inner struggle and grace has found that kind of enduring reach speaks to something deep in the human need to name what frightens us about ourselves.
From the intimate to the vast — scientists are now studying whether humanity might deliberately dim the sun to soften the fury of a super El Nino. A natural experiment observed over sun-scorched Australia is offering early clues. It is a question that carries both promise and weight: at what point does our reach for solutions become its own kind of risk?
And reaching further still — new images have captured galaxies in collision, swirling star systems merging across unimaginable distances. Astronomers ask whether this is a vision of our own Milky Way's eventual fate. There is something quietly humbling in that, the reminder that even the grandest things are passing through.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
