You see the memes everywhere:

Stay Calm … with some sort of ending.

Sometimes, it’s hard to stay calm when your heart is broken.

Sometimes, it’s hard to stay calm when you’ve been wronged.

Sometimes, it’s hard to stay calm when you’ve been silenced by injustice.

But sometimes, the only way to react with dignity is to react with a calm that doesn’t say I am weak.

But rather, it is a calm that says, no matter what it may look like right now,

I’m on the winning team, and victory is coming.

So, stay calm.

Because peace resides within.

And where there is peace, there is a brighter hope for tomorrow.

Now when these things begin to happen, lookup and lift up your heads, because yourredemption draws near.

Luke 21:28