[bvw]

The middle part of the pastor's answer, imo, should have been the first and repeated part. That is that his beliefs made him well-prepared to deal with what happens, no matter what it is.

Instead the first idea he mentions was the weakest, a sop to victimhood, "This is just temporary."

Challenges in life are the constant blessings of the moral, and those closest to G-d. They are not "temporary".

[governsleastgovernsbest]

He did not say "temporary," he said "temporal", meaning of this world, not of the eternal.