In recent days, during the overlapping Christmas season of 2025, our hearts are heavy as we absorb difficult-to-comprehend news.

• We grieve the tragic murder of Carl and Michelle Reiner.
• We mourn lives shattered by the mass shooting at Brown University.
• We recoil from the antisemitic terror attack at Bondi Beach.

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.

Wealthy folks know the kind of gift that can be fashioned into maximum reward.

One of the foremost is any skill, plan or investment that multiplies wealth.

But, the affluent also know that material wealth is no barrier to despair.

That’s why intrigue peaks this time of year around the Magi who ventured thousands of miles to the first Christmas.

They found four gifts that add up to prosperity and satisfaction.