One of my favorite psalms is psalm 46. The person who wrote it is not naive. He knows that there is nothing easy about life, and in the psalm he speaks of the world falling apart. Consequently, he has every reason to be fearful and anxious.
Without doubt, in a threatening time of coronavirus, that fear and anxiety is not foreign to any of us.
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