Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour of reflection.
Jay Pharoah, the comedian and former Saturday Night Live performer, shared something quietly striking recently. Wanting to read the Bible in full, he found himself undone by the very device meant to help him — every notification a small interruption, every app a gentle thief of sacred attention. There is something worth sitting with in that: the ancient and the urgent, competing on the same small screen.
From the personal to the political, Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to the Vatican this week to meet with Pope Leo, even as President Trump and the new pontiff exchanged pointed words over the ongoing conflict with Iran. Two institutions, each claiming a kind of moral authority, finding themselves in uneasy conversation — not unlike most human relationships, really.
And on a gentler frequency, a reflection circulated this week for women who carry the longing to become mothers. It offered something simple and serious at once: that longing is not evidence of being forgotten, that a life without children is not a life diminished. Desire, the piece suggested, does not define worth. That thought deserves more room than we usually give it.
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