Flourishing Life: Now and in the Time to Come

On the promotion of human flourishing

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It requires conscious choices made over time.

On Human Flourishing

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Journey to a 'Flourishing Life'

Flourishing — Steve Graves. Since then, Workmatters has been used to impact thousands of leaders in Northwest Arkansas and across the U. Prior to leading Workmatters, Mr. Roth was vice president, sales and marketing for J.

Hunt in , David was the senior vice president of marketing for Manugistics, a supply chain management software provider in Maryland and vice president of marketing for American Software in Atlanta, Ga. He resides in Fayetteville, Ark.

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Her husband had been supportive of her return to college; but "it was the s," she says, "and we were children when we married. The marriage ended without enmity. We both remarried and have remained on good terms.

She was Catholic and had never lost a deep, religious longing, which — when she was a teenager — attracted her to a convent. Her second marriage of 35 years, to psychology professor Leon Levy, who was a mentor and 18 years her senior, ended with his death from Alzheimer's disease two years ago. Those losses, she says, "confirmed a need to form from my life events a coherent whole.

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Now married to Paul "Bud" Achtemeier, a Union Theological Seminary professor emeritus and well-known biblical scholar, she has another very supportive partner. She also doesn't overlook "the community of support that has supplied a big picture for me as a rock to stand on. The better stories are those you can integrate in a positive sense. She points out, when asked, that rewriting one's life story isn't the same as the popular term "reinventing oneself," which she says "suggests stepping away from the core self and becoming somebody different.

The ideal is to build upon the positive core you identify. Matt Gaffney, who was on the search committee that called Levy-Achtemeier to St. Mark's Episcopal Church in , says that after the committee's first meeting with her, "we were impressed by her intellect, compassion and organizational capabilities. We thought she could be a transformative choice for St.

Mark's, which at the time suffered from a lack of direction and leadership. And, boy, did she deliver for us.

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Mark's, attendance had increased to when she left in the fall of Levy-Achtemeier had received a Lilly Foundation grant to help fund the beginning of research for her second book, Imagination and the Journey of Faith , at the University of Cambridge in England, in the summer of After that sabbatical and her return to St. Mark's, she found no time to continue work on the book and decided to leave full-time parish ministry the next year for writing.

As someone who believes she's "cooperated with God's plan" for her life, she says she found that "the writing of the book pulled me back into the orbit of my studies. Without God, people often embrace art, music, literature and theater for meaning.

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