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Are you languishing or are you flourishing?

Two articles in The New York Times this past week raised that question for me and many others.

Languishing is, apparently, the mood for 2021. The organizational psychologist, Adam Grant, suggests that for many, the over-all feeling is “blah.”

Flourishing is the opposite—a feeling of purpose in what you are doing, the sense that you are moving forward and living in a way that is fulfilling.

The God who comforts the people as a mother comforts her child speaks through the prophet: “Your bodies shall flourish. Your hearts shall rejoice.”

“I appointed you,” Jesus says, “I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last.”

These are images of the human flourishing that God desires for all. How do we get there?

SCRIPTURE LESSONS: Isaiah 66:12-14; John 15:9-17

SERMON       “Flourishing in This Time”

The Rev. Bill Lovin preaching

ANTHEM       “Let Us Love in Deed and Truth”     Larry King

                        Avery Nabholz, Wen Chin Liu, Colin Wilson, Josh Ramseyer

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