1. Families who have suffered through the year’s wildfires, hurricanes and mass shootings face an almost impossible question: How does one give thanks after losing so much?

Sherri Pomeroy, above center, the wife of the pastor at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., lost her 14-year-old daughter in the massacre there. But she will get up on Thanksgiving and cook for the shattered congregation.