Emphasis Preaching Journal

Sometimes it is doing a massive thing to "stand firm and hold to the traditions." During a time of change and upheaval or disorientation and confusion, it may seem a small, insignificant act, but often it can be our salvation and the salvation of others.

In Elie Wiesel's Night he writes of his experiences in a concentration camp and how, given immense fatigue, his body wanted sleep, but how sleep for many there was transmuted into death. A small, but massive thing was to stay awake and stand firm in the resolve to survive: