The United States now finds itself in a moment of unexpected shifts—or rather, the slowing of them. After years of intense debate over immigration, the nation is experiencing one of the steepest declines in migration in half a century. Border encounters have dropped, visa-based entries have tightened, and the once-surging flow of newcomers has sharply receded.

God recognizes that life often unfolds beyond humanity's capacity to understand it. When life overwhelms, God provides through Christ—not to deliver us from sin, for that would deny God's presence in the world, but to deliver us from despair and hopelessness.