There are moments in life that remind us what perseverance really means.
One of those moments came not long ago at a New York Islanders hockey game. The crowd was buzzing. Cameras rolling. Then, from the tunnel, came 104-year-old World War II veteran Dominick Critelli.
He lifted his soprano saxophone and began to play the national anthem.
Critelli shows us how perseverance works.
Continue Reading “The Beauty of Perseverance: A 104-Year-Old Veteran’s Anthem of Strength” Standing behind these ducks early yesterday morning, I was swept by a scene of Christmas joy.
God was there in all his morning glory, and I wanted to hear what he had to say.
Continue Reading “Three ways Christmas joy leads to your dreams in 2026” In recent days, during the overlapping Christmas season of 2025, our hearts are heavy as we absorb difficult-to-comprehend news.
By September 30, 2025, the Gun Violence Data Hub reported 11,197 shooting deaths in the United States alone, numbers that cannot begin to capture the human stories behind them, nor the many other forms of violent loss. By late November, nearly 400 mass shootings had been recorded, leaving hundreds dead and thousands wounded.
Even the Christmas story begins with the holy family fleeing a terrorist king at night, a quiet reminder that God chose to enter our broken world not from a distance, but from within it.
Continue Reading “How to make Christmas 2025 your best holiday ever” No matter your circumstances, Christmas is the way of hope.
Logical? No, Christmas is illogical. It doesn’t make sense.
Continue Reading “How to Find Christmas Magic When Everything Feels Broken and Hopeless” Christmas reminds us who the stable people are in our lives and who are not.
The first Christmas defines stability, not with theories, but with people.
Step into the scene. The world is tense, turbulent, and uncertain. Yet the characters surrounding Jesus’ birth move forward with steady resolve.
Every one of them shows surprising steadiness amid chaos.
It’s not that different from our moment in history.
Never have so many been so wealthy, and never have so many felt so fragile and anxious.
But the first Christmas still speaks.
Its ordinary participants quietly offer us ingredients for a more stable life.
Continue Reading “How the stable people at the first Christmas stabilize us today”