My family experienced some difficult days through the holiday season. These were the kind of days that involved ambulances, emergency rooms, bleeds, broken bones, and even terrifying diagnoses that, thankfully, turned out to be misdiagnoses. We entered this new year thankful for the holidays but also thankful to be through them. And, to be honest, we also entered this new year a little bit frazzled and on edge.

I went for a walk in the early hours of 2025. I needed some time to process all this and to think and pray about it. The sky was dark, snow was falling, and I was following a single set of footprints that had passed through the streets a short time before me. There was one thought that was fixed in my mind and one set of questions.

The questions were these: Will my faith fail? Will my trust waver? Will my confidence give way?

I’m thankful that most of the medical issues have since been resolved. In fact, most were found to barely be problems at all, even though they certainly appeared dire in the moment. The scariest of them all


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