I’m currently re-watching the movie A Hidden Life. It’s 3 hours long, but my goodness is one of the most spectacularly beautiful films I’ve ever seen. Depicting the incredible beauty of a simple farming life in the shadow of mountains in Austria, it shows the true story of a faith-filled farmer named Franz who refused to go along with the Nazis, and they killed him for it.

How terrible the human cost of war, of tyranny, and of outright hate. Perhaps some would say that Franz should have just given in, but his faith in God never allowed him to compromise like that. As MLK Jr famously said, the time is always right to do what is right.

May this be a lesson we carry with us into 2025.