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It can feel like the COVID-19 virus has brought the entire planet to a screeching halt. Festivals are cancelled. Basketball is cancelled. School semesters are cancelled. Memorial services and birthday parties are cancelled. It feels like everything is cancelled.   And whatever you’re going through today, I want to remind you that it’s okay to be disappointed. And also, let’s give each other grace since we are all trying to navigate unexpected fears, hardships, and disappointments. It can be so easy to let today’s disappointments make you expect the absolute worst for tomorrow. I’m challenging myself – and you too – to not run so far into the unknown future. Let’s just make the most responsible and joyful decisions we can today and place the rest in God’s hands.   Jesus reminds us in John verse 16:33, “I have you told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”   We can feel afraid, but we don’t have to live afraid. Now is the time to feed your faith and fuel healthy perspectives. Make the choice today what will rule in your hearts and proclaim out loud: “Disillusioning disappointments and blinding fear, you don’t get to be the boss of me. . .I am ruled by the peace of Christ, and I will use His Truth to frame all I see.”               This is Andrew Palau.