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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Romans 1611 reads, You make known to me the path of life. In your presence, there is

fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Joanna Pena was a medical student

at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, California. Her parents came to the U.S.

when they were 18 and worked hard to raise their family. Her father was badly injured in a work

accident and could not work, so he stayed home to raise Joanna and her three siblings. Her mother

became the sole financial provider for the family, working several housekeeping

jobs at a time to pay the bills. One of these jobs was working as a custodian at the hospital

where Joanna was a medical student. A 2019 picture of them together recently went viral and became the

subject of a Washington Post article. As we noted yesterday,

courageous perseverance is invaluable in a broken world that is becoming more antagonistic to the

gospel with each passing year. A glance at the day's news is enough to reinforce this fact.

A student was killed and seven others were wounded

in a shooting Sunday at Grambling State University. Out of practice, airline pilots are making

mistakes in the air. One forgot to lower the wheels for landing until the plane was nearly on the

ground. Another forgot to start his plane's second engine for takeoff

and had to abort the flight. Kim Jong-un vows to build an invisible military in North Korea,

capable of launching nuclear strikes on the U.S. mainland. A political commentator is predicting

that the U.S. will be at war with China within 10 years.

Grinchinomics are threatening the holiday season, with supply chain issues and rising household costs.

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