From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:
This is how terrorists work. They rely on unpredictability, on continually creating chaos, on altering routine, on robbing their targets of safety, stability, and mental rest until they relent. It’s impossible to sustain a level of urgency required to combat all the sewage we are immersed in without losing our minds—and so we need to step out of it for sanity’s sake.
This is why, as we fight these repetitive atrocities, as we rally against legislative nightmares and civil rights violations, as we pushback against the relentless flood of horrible—we need to fight for ourselves. We need to guard our bodies, our minds, and our souls, because that is the one war we cannot afford to lose. When we’re no longer fully available to the people who love us, when we’re too tired to create or laugh or feel joy, when we become hopeless and bitter—the terrorists have won.