Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
After seventy-one years, Columbia House is closing its doors for good. The mail-order music club that once lured millions with twelve CDs for a penny became a strange and tender ritual of ownership in an age before streaming dissolved the very idea of a collection. Something about holding those discs mattered.
From the physical to the purposeful — Alex Kendrick is returning to Flywheel, the film that first gave his ministry its voice, now reimagined through a new generation of believers an ocean away from where it began. He speaks openly about the danger of filmmakers chasing their own glory rather than something larger than themselves, a caution that reaches well beyond cinema.
And in that same spirit of surrender, Ariel Fitz-Patrick had quit her job, left school, and spent her last dollar on a course before TikTok finally opened for her. She gave herself one month and one hundred thousand followers as the threshold. What she found on the other side was an audience hungry for faith told with honesty and laughter.
Three stories, each quietly asking what we are willing to let go of before something true can begin. That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
