When the World Is on Fire, What Does a Man Hold Onto?
I am not writing this from a safe distance. American soldiers are dead. Missiles are flying over cities that were vacation destinations last week. Markets are reacting. Families are watching the news and not sleeping well. And underneath all of it — underneath the headlines and the geopolitical analysis and the social media takes — there is a quieter, more personal question that most men are carrying but not saying out loud. What do I actually hold onto when the world feels like it is coming apart? Not what am I supposed to say I hold onto. Not what sounds right in a Bible study. What do I actually reach for when the ground starts moving? I want to answer that question honestly. Because I have been there. And the answer changed my life. The Thing Nobody Wants to Admit Most men are not okay right now. Not because of the war specifically. But because the war is the latest thing in a long list of things that remind us how little control we actually have. The job that is no...