Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
In Europe this week, a voice was raised on behalf of the voiceless. The European Parliament adopted a resolution urging Pakistan to create a national mechanism for families whose daughters have been abducted and forcibly converted. It is a call not only for policy, but for the recognition that a girl's faith and future belong to her alone.
From the halls of Parliament to a courtroom in Canada, we find another story where the weight of human decision presses hard against the tenderness of life. A surrogate mother who refused to abort a baby diagnosed with a cleft lip now faces a lawsuit from the couple who hired her. She says she was thrown away for choosing to continue. The child she carried is here. The questions that surround that fact will not resolve easily.
And then, half a billion years into the past, paleontologists have found what may be the first creature on Earth to show a preference for bending right. In the deep archive of ancient stone, asymmetry appears, quiet and persistent, as if nature itself was already learning to lean one way.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
