Welcome to The Light.
Summer has a strange way of amplifying our silences. When a friend doesn't text back, the mind fills the quiet with stories — stories of abandonment, of fading relevance. But psychologists remind us that distance is rarely rejection. People are simply living, distracted, overwhelmed. The friendship likely holds.
And speaking of hidden things that hold — astronomers have discovered a dwarf galaxy tucked quietly inside our own Milky Way, named Loki. It has been there all along, invisible within the familiar, a whole world nested inside the world we thought we knew. Science keeps teaching us that what we see is never the whole picture.
That lesson in seeing clearly matters, too, in Jerusalem, where a French nun was attacked near King David's Tomb. Israeli police have arrested a thirty-six-year-old man, and investigators are examining whether hatred was the motive. Global voices have responded with condemnation, and a reminder that sacred spaces ask something of us — a quality of attention, of restraint, of basic human dignity.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
