We kicked off a new Christmas series by tracing the story behind Silent Night—from a water-damaged organ in Oberndorf to a battlefield ceasefire on the Western Front. Peace broke in where it made no sense. That’s the backdrop for a question many of us are living: what do you do when life doesn’t go as planned? Some of us are still carrying delays, wounds, and curveballs we never expected. So I turned to Luke 1 and the lives of Zechariah and Elizabeth. Scripture calls them righteous and blameless, yet they lived decades in barrenness. Their story reminds us that a barren season doesn’t mean a broken life. Faithfulness isn’t a shortcut around pain; it’s how we walk with God through it.