Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Something has been gathering in the culture, slow and then all at once. When RAYE stood center stage in a beaded dress and sang with a gospel choir and meant every word, audiences wept. Critics are calling it the Glam Soul Era — a return to music that carries genuine spiritual weight, beauty worn as devotion rather than performance.
From the surface of the human spirit to the surface of the earth itself — the Soviets once drilled deeper into our planet than anyone ever has, reaching nearly fifteen kilometers down into the Kola Peninsula over the course of two decades. What they found challenged what we thought we knew about the layers beneath us, a reminder that the ground we stand on holds more mystery than certainty.
And in Massachusetts, lawmakers have passed legislation removing the previous gestational limit on abortion, leaving decisions to the judgment of the physician. It is a law that will be held differently by different hearts — some as an expansion of compassion, others as a wound. Few questions ask more of us, or ask it more quietly.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
