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Feeling Disoriented? Let God Reorient You

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This is a difficult season as we live with a global pandemic, painful racial tensions, an intense divide in politics, economic instability, people of color suffering disproportionately, and natural catastrophes. We’re overwhelmed by uncertainty, stress, disappointment, conflicts, isolation, fatigue, pain, loss, sickness, and fear.

As we face these difficulties, I’m reminded of Lamentations 3:21–24:

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