Welcome to The Light, where we pause to reflect on what matters.
A young woman named Hannah Strege carries a singular story. She was the first baby born through embryo adoption, the only one among twenty to survive the freeze, the thaw, and the transfer. Her existence is quietly reshaping how Christians reckon with the moral weight of frozen embryos.
From the particular to the persistent — a writer marks two years living inside chronic pain. What began as occasional headaches became a constellation of symptoms without clear cause. And yet prayer remained, not as a transaction, but as a presence. Even when healing felt withheld, the practice of turning toward God held its own kind of meaning.
And then this, worth sitting with: if confrontation has become something you enjoy — if getting in someone's face feels like a victory — you may have stopped serving that person altogether. You are, as one voice puts it, ministering to your own ego. Genuine care rarely looks like domination.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
