CRU Shares Devotional With Staff Members Who Feel Numb, Betrayed and Fearful By Trump Election Victory
CRU (formerly known as Campus Crusade) continues to manifest its weak-willed wokeness and snowflakey-smooth persona after the Oneness in Diversity national team shared a missive with staff members who are feeling betrayed, hurt, angry, and numb from Donald Trump’s decisive election win over Kamala Harris.
The letter, shared by Jon Harris and posted in its entirety in the endnotes, tries to come across as neutral and balanced but instead strikes a tone of intense sadness and shock for emotionally fragile children. The Oneness in Diversity team writes:
Donald Trump’s election for the second time has likely brought up a number of feelings among many of you. After taking time to process it ourselves, the Oneness in Diversity team wanted to reach out to you all.
We want to acknowledge the range of feelings that exist right now. No matter who you voted for or didn’t vote for, what you’ve felt since Tuesday night is valid. You might feel frustration or disappointment. You might feel relieved. You might feel fear, betrayal, anger or a number of any other emotions. These are all real emotions, and we encourage you to not minimize what you’re feeling but to process them in healthy ways.
You’d almost think there was a mass shooting at school for the way Cru talks about it:
Talk to safe people about your feelings. Journal and pray. Unplug from social media. This devotional, created by our spiritual care coordinators Dominique Dawson and Hung Lu, could be a helpful starting point for you. If you feel you need space to process or someone to pray for you, please reach out to one@cru.org and Dominique will respond.
In the accompanying devotional, Dawson, who serves as the Spiritual Care Collaborator for Cru’s Oneness in Diversity department and creates resources “supporting and shepherding historically marginalized staff (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, Women, and across the generations)” instructs people to get ‘grounded’ for their endeavor and do breathing exercises.
Get comfortable, close your eyes and feel the ground underneath your feet.
Try to be still and quiet before the Lord.
Relax and take 3 deep breaths (inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 3 seconds, exhale for 4 seconds and hold for 3 seconds).
Then, the devotional:
The world has been in a season of collective strife and turmoil. In light of a long and contentious election season, we are not ok. It seems we’ve all experienced loss in some way. Loss can look different for each of us, it can mean the death of a loved one, but also the death of a dream or a way of life.
…We may be carrying that grief with us wherever we go. Grief encompasses a lot of different emotions and longings. Anger: This is not the way it is supposed to be, why does it have to be this way? Sadness: I long to regain what was lost; Disappointment: I miss the dream of what could have been; Numbness: This is too much and I don’t know what to feel at all; Fear: Could more be lost? Could things get worse? Am I safe?
But we are not alone in feeling these ways. As we take the time to deeply examine our hearts and invite God into those interior spaces, God meets us there (Psalm 139:23). We get to experience our savior, Immanuel. God with us and God with us in our grief. In Isaiah 53:3, Jesus is described as “a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.” We have a sympathetic high priest that knows what loss can do to the deepest parts of your mind, heart, body, and soul. The tough news is that the only way to deal with grief is to go through it. The good news is that Immanuel is there with us, will carry us through, and gave us one another as well. You are not alone.
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