Reads from Lighten is a collection of writings intended to help you step into the rest, clarity, and joy found in Jesus, the Light of the World. Today’s article, ‘My Life Among the Tombs,’ written and read by Derek Caldwell, is a personal account of the author’s struggle with mental illness, and Jesus’s pursuit of those who feel unreachable and unlovable.

Reads from Lighten is a collection of writings intended to help you step into the rest, clarity, and joy found in Jesus, the Light of the World. Today’s article, ‘Don’t Stop Believing in Miracles,’ written and read by Derek Caldwell, is a meditation on time, memory, and looking back at miracles long forgotten.

Reads from Lighten is a collection of writings intended to help you step into the rest, clarity, and joy found in Jesus, the Light of the World. Today’s article, “Out of Sight,” written and read by Danielle DuRant, considers the familiar aphorism “Seeing is believing.”

Reads from Lighten is a collection of writings intended to help you step into the rest, clarity, and joy found in Jesus, the Light of the World. Today's article, "Distracting Ourselves from Loneliness," written and read by Lou Phillips, explains how Christ shows us that we can trust Him with our most vulnerable experiences, including our loneliness.

Reads from Lighten is a collection of writings intended to help you step into the rest, clarity, and joy found in Jesus, the Light of the World. In her article, “On Changing the World,” Lighten writer Olivia Davis shares a moment where she questioned if she was supposed to be a world changer, and, if not, what her purpose was.

Reads from Lighten is a collection of writings intended to help you step into the rest, clarity, and joy found in Jesus, the Light of the World. In her article, “God, do you still love me?,” Lighten writer Olivia Davis shares how God met her in the midst of a season of brokenness and sorrow.

Reads from Lighten is a collection of writings intended to help you step into the rest, clarity, and joy found in Jesus, the Light of the World. Today's article, "Losing Faith in Times of Uncertainty," written and read by Lou Phillips, asks how we can take our struggles with God to Him, as John the Baptist once did.

Reads from Lighten is a collection of writings intended to help you step into the rest, clarity, and joy found in Jesus, the Light of the World. Today’s article, “Left on Boylston,” written and read by Danielle DuRant, talks about running the Boston Marathon and the stories we tell ourselves.

Reads from Lighten is a collection of writings intended to help you step into the rest, clarity, and joy found in Jesus, the Light of the World. Today’s article, ‘The Good News of a Crown of Thorns,’ written and read by Derek Caldwell, explores the ways that the God who suffers alongside us meets us in the midst of rejection and trauma.

Reads from Lighten is a collection of writings intended to help you step into the rest, clarity, and joy found in Jesus, the Light of the World. Today’s article, “A Perfect Ending,” written and read by Danielle DuRant, imagines how Palm Sunday could be the perfect ending to a children’s story.