Welcome to The Light, where we pause to consider what the day is asking of us.
In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott has called for an immediate investigation into a South Texas hospital reportedly marketing birth packages to foreign nationals. The practice, known as birth tourism, raises layered questions about law, belonging, and what it means to offer welcome within a nation's borders.
From the world of politics, questions of a different kind surround Ken Paxton, the Senate candidate whose recent travels to Europe with Tracy Duhon, a Christian author and aspiring influencer, have drawn public scrutiny. The story sits at an uneasy intersection of personal conduct, public trust, and the weight that moral identity carries when it enters the arena of power.
And in quieter territory, a conversation from The Gospel Coalition invites us to sit with one of the oldest tensions in the life of faith — when do we tend to ourselves, and when do we pour ourselves out for others? The answer, it seems, begins not with a rule but with honest self-knowledge, that slow and sometimes uncomfortable work of understanding how we are made.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
