Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Scientists have discovered that mussels, those ancient, armored creatures clinging to rock and tide, experience something remarkably like fear. When threatened, they alter their behavior in measurable ways, reminding us that the interior life of the world may run far deeper than we have dared to imagine.
From the depths of the sea to the depths of the soul, Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy have shared publicly that they have been baptized, describing a surrender to faith that has reshaped what they value and how they move through their days. Whatever one believes, there is something worth sitting with in the image of two people choosing to begin again.
And in Massachusetts, the state's highest court has upheld a ruling blocking two ten-foot bronze statues of Catholic saints from being placed on a public government building. The decision turns on the old and tender question of where shared civic space ends and sacred expression begins, a boundary societies have never quite finished drawing.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
