One of the best parts about Christmas is spending time with family, but it doesn't always go quite as smoothly as we might like.

Welcome back to another T-Rex talk. And if you're like me, you're going to be spending time with some extended family this coming week.

We're going to be traveling, but maybe you have people coming to your neck of the woods,

and maybe it's people that you don't spend a lot of time with every day.

And maybe, as you talk over the eggnog and Christmas dinner, things get a little more heated than you expect.

This is in no way a slam on your family. It's just kind of pointing out that America is a more

fractious and fractured place now than even a few years ago. Now fortunately, my in-laws are just wonderful people,

and I think the conversations are going to be incredibly encouraging and edifying all the way around.

But I also have a lot of friends with maybe not the same types of relationships with their extended family,

and there's a little more tension when they discuss

how their lives are going. We're heading into a very interesting election year, and there's a bunch of

really interesting stuff in the news, and that's going to result in some pretty interesting

Christmas dinner conversations this year. I want to make sure that we use this opportunity to do this

really well and be a blessing to our friends and our families, but also speak to the truth, which is

extremely necessary. Now, you might be wondering why I am kind of pessimistic about some of these

conversations. And let me give you just one example.

The White House has ordered that the Arlington Cemetery Reconciliation Statue,

which was built after the Civil War, to reconcile northern and southern soldiers,

that has to be torn down.

When you're tearing down the explicitly named

reconciliation statue, I feel like that kind of sends a message. Now, fortunately, U.S. District

Judge Rossi Alston has issued a hold on that. So I'm not sure what will happen in Arlington Cemetery, but I am pretty

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