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  • January 7 — Beautiful and Terrible

    ByRichard Olsen

    Frederick Buechner lived nearly a century, long enough to watch both beautiful and terrible things unfold in his own life and in the world around him. When he finally wrote these twelve words, they arrived not as naive optimism but as hard-won wisdom from a man who had buried his father to suicide at age ten and still found life worth embracing. His gentle command echoes the most repeated phrase in Scripture. Come sit a while and receive this tender counsel for the uncertain days ahead.

  • — The Last of Human Freedoms —

    ByRichard Olsen

    Viktor Frankl survived the Nazi concentration camps and emerged with a profound truth: even when we cannot change our circumstances, we retain the power to choose our response. Writing from the depths of unimaginable suffering, he discovered that our greatest freedom lies not in controlling what happens to us, but in deciding who we become through it. Let us sit with this hard-won wisdom and discover how it speaks to our own unchangeable moments.

  • — The Lamp Within —

    ByRichard Olsen

    C.S. Lewis was not a man who had life handed to him easily. He lost his mother as a child, was wounded in war, and spent years wrestling with doubt before finding faith in his thirties. Yet he kept beginning again — writing Narnia at fifty, finding unexpected love in his late fifties, and offering us words that still echo today. This New Year, let his testimony remind you that the season for dreaming never truly ends. Come sit a while and discover why.