When jarring events have taken place in my life and community, in the nation, or in the world, I’ve found wise counsel in the New Testament book of Jude: “Keep yourselves in the love of God” ( 1:21 ). Keeping ourselves in the “love of God” is a spiritual state of thought that has at times felt to me much like sheltering in a safe, known, and trusted physical location.
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