The min­is­ter ob­served that it was nat­ur­al hu­man re­sponse to want to re­tal­i­ate, but he said there is no need to pre­tend we can han­dle every sit­u­a­tion of ad­ver­si­ty."We are liv­ing in a time, in a so­ci­ety where so many peo­ple are anx­ious to pick a fight. So many peo­ple want to be con­fronta­tion­al with us. So many peo­ple are ea­ger to watch us in our faces and tell us things that hurt, or tell us things that are mean to de­stroy our spir­it. "Here we see Mary and Joseph avoid­ing a con­fronta­tion, find­ing shel­ter in a dis­tant land, wait­ing for the storm to pass and wait­ing for God's guid­ance."Link­ing the sto­ry to the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go, Rev Sammah said: "There are times when we need to take shel­ter from a storm."He in­vit­ed all present, in­clud­ing coun­cil­lor John Mark Chankers­ingh rep­re­sent­ing San Fer­nan­do May­or Mar­lene Coudray and Bish­op Jan­kee Raghu­nanan, rep­re­sent­ing Min­is­ter of En­er­gy Car­olyn Seep­er­sad-Bachan, to put all their bat­tles in God's hands.