Stressing with Naaman [Proper 23C - 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c Stressing with Naaman Everybody is stressed out. You’re stressed out. I’m stressed out. Kanye West is stressed out. Everyone who has to be around Kanye West is stressed out. And most importantly, for our purposes today, every single person in the Naaman story is a little stressed out. Because stress is a such a big deal in our nation – a nation in which almost half of the adult population has quit a job because of stress, a nation in which workplace stress cost over $300 billion per year, before COVID – researchers spend a lot of time researching it. [1] And according to the numbers, at least half of those researchers are stressed about all of that stress research – maybe even more than half because what they have found is that stress is contagious. We don’t really need that research to know that stress is contagious because we have Naam...