Languishing …  the condition of someone
                       who may be able to function
               but has lost a sense of hope and meaning.
           Languishing is not the presence of mental illness;
          it is the absence of mental and emotional vitality …
                        it is the opposite of flourishing …

                   {The Me I Want To Be, John Ortberg}
                                
Languishing. I have come to know this word from the inside out.

Ouch. I just looked up languishing in my thesaurus and found words like fade away, get weaker, rot, and decay. Sounds like I’m dying. And so I have been.

Don’t panic! I don’t have some dreaded disease – or do I?

I think I do.

I’m dying of it. God knows I am.

What’s more, I think he’s okay with it.

I’m sick of languishing. He’s okay with that, too.

And so I stand, once again, before the throne of the King of the Universe and ask, once again, for an infusion of the life he promises and I know, once again, he’ll give it to me hand over fist …

                     I came so they can have real and eternal life,
                   more and better life than they ever dreamed of.
                                        John 10:10, Jesus

Let there be life.