Our answer to this question is more nuanced in 2022 than five years ago.
In the past five years, humanity has experienced a global pandemic, ongoing political turmoil, supply chain failures, rising inflation, and the list continues.
What other stressors do we struggle against?
There are also more intimate stressors to consider, such as a loss of a loved one, loss of a means of income, infertility, divorce, to spilling water on your computer keyboard (yes, this just happened to me.)
Any of the above items and others can raise our cortisol, the stress hormone, to various degrees. How we cope with the daily intimate anxieties and the global ones reveals our differences in resilience.
Can we “bloom” like the flower in the picture above, even when we are anxious?
What can we learn about dealing with our anxieties in Genesis 25:21?
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