Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour for reflection.
Across the country, voices are gathering for Rededicate Two Fifty, a national jubilee of prayer and thanksgiving. Speakers describe an America they call deeply unsettled, and they are calling citizens back to what they believe is a spiritual foundation, inviting repentance and remembrance as the nation marks a quarter millennium of life.
That searching for solid ground finds an echo in something quieter and more personal. Teachers of the contemplative life remind us that change, whether sudden or seasonal, need not untether us. The invitation is not to resist the turning of things, but to find within ourselves an anchor that the turning cannot reach.
And yet the world itself is turning in ways that feel irreversible. Observers watching this week's summit in Beijing note something once unthinkable: that the nation which long called itself leader of the free world now extends its hand and finds fewer rushing to take it. Power, it seems, is not declared. It is recognized, quietly, by others.
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