(These are my favorite scriptures about “living in the world but not of the world.”)

This is what God said to everyone that was forced out of Jerusalem into Babylon:

Build houses and live in them. Plant roots, grow gardens, dig up the vegetable and pick the fruit and eat it, year after year. Get married, and have kids and then marry your kids off and have grandkids and surround yourself with family. Don't stop living just because this is not what you expected, don't lean into the lessness, make it more.