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Today I have decided to publish a lengthy pastoral note that I wrote to the parents of teens in my church. I wanted to remind myself that no matter what takes place on the earth, the Lord is King and that there are no political circumstances down here that change heavenly reality in the slightest. Anyway, it's all explained below. Dear parents, Bad news on the Internet Earlier this afternoon I sat through our pastoral team meeting distracted and only somewhat listening as I obsessively switched browser tabs back and forth from the meeting minutes to the infamous New York Times U.S. Election forecast . As it became increasingly clear that Donald Trump will once again be elected President of the United States, I felt a pit of anxiety grow deep in my stomach. I was bracing, and not at all ready for another four years of emotionally exhausting political discourse, circus headlines, deeply divided culture, and what my friend described as “watching a car crash online every single day”.