Jeremiah 29:7
“Seek the shalom of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its shalom you will have shalom.”
The prophet Jeremiah writes this letter to the Jewish exiles who were forcibly deported from Jerusalem to Babylon in the early 6th century BCE. He is responding to false prophets who were promising a quick return home, and instead tells the exiles to settle in and contribute to their new, foreign land.
What does it mean to seek the well-being of a place you didn't choose, and perhaps don't feel belongs to you?