We are days from an election. Red vs. blue. Talking heads are digging in their heels on extreme positions. Political texts seem to arrive every five minutes (I live in the battleground state of Georgia, but I know it’s everywhere). And of course, there are very real and legitimate concerns.
But the concerns I have are of a different nature: How do we walk through this ongoing season well? How do we navigate this time in a way that preserves our relationships, our mental health, and—for those of us who are people of faith—our ability to be ambassadors for Jesus in a fractured world?
I am not going to talk politics in this article. What I am going to do is provide a data-driven reality check and share a truly startling secret that will transform our experience of this fraught election season if we let it. Because—let’s be honest with ourselves—the “fraught-ness” of this season is probably not going to be complete next Tuesday.
So to help us through these next few weeks or months, let’s learn (in Part 1) about this encouraging secret, and then (in Part 2) we’ll identify steps to help us go forward well.
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