Seldom is someone like Max Lucado — a minister once dubbed “America’s pastor” — left without words.

Less than 24 hours removed from conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination in Utah , two weeks after the senseless shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, and just under three weeks past the slaughtering of a Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte, there was a palpable exhaustion in Lucado’s voice.

“I just don’t have the words,” he told CBN News, holding sorrow at bay. “It leaves us struggling.”

To make sense of the darkness of this world, Lucado turned to geography — not the geography of maps and charts, but toward a spiritual geography, a divine placement that holds in tension what Christians often call “ the already but not yet .”

“Sometimes, just a reminder of

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