“Kia whitianga te ra, ka hihi, ka whakamana, te ha, te he, kia whai kikokiko, kia puawai te mauri.”

“Te sun arises with each new day; its rays beckon opportunity to all living things.”

That’s what is written on the postcard I picked up at the local Age Concern office here in Kaitaia. The card is published by the Mental Health Foundation. (The Mental Health Awareness Week was from 4-10 October 2010.)

“Flourishing for everyBODY

Feel good and function well”

On the postcard is also explained in more details what “Feeling good” and “functioning well” means.

The dictionary explains that to flourish is “to thrive; prosper; to be at the peak of condition; to be healthy: plants flourish in the light.” “The sun arises with each new day; its rays beckon opportunity to all living things.”

The Bible, the Word of the Living God, tells us about those natural  effects of the sun: causing the fruits of the earth to grow (Deuteronomy 33:14; Second Samuel 23:4).

In the book of  Psalms God himself is  said to be the sun. Read Psalm 84:11!

“For the Lord God is a sun……….

Does that not mean that He is the source of spiritual light and gladness?

God is the source of spiritual light and we cannot flourish without HIM!

Read also Matthew 17:2 and Revelation 1:16