Mike Donehey Releases ‘Flourish’

As months passed, he realized he needed to mourn these drastic life changes as well as the unknown. The more he began to open up and let himself feel sadness and the sting of the pain, “the more joy came flooding in on the other side,” he explains. Songs began pouring out and an album was quickly penned.

Writing during the pandemic became the anthem he needed to sing for himself, and, as the title song explains, he directs to Psalm 126 that in Christ he has what he needs to truly flourish. “If you want more joy, allow sadness,” Donehey says. “Grieve to get where you need to go because the more you shrink your sadness, you’re numbing the pain of hope. Flourish isn’t an album of naivete, it’s acknowledging that I was in a desert to appreciate the streams running through it.”

As an album that shares songs full of encouragement, radical vulnerability, mourning, honesty, acceptance,  acknowledgment, Donehey tackles it all in this collection of eleven songs birthed out of his struggle to learn what it takes to truly flourish in any and every circumstance.

FLOURISH tracklisting:

1. Standing At The Edge Of My World
2. Follow You Into The Fire
3. All Together
4. Glory I Couldn’t See
5. Glory Reprise
6. Flourish
7. Abundance
8. From The Start
9. Something That I Can’t Explain
10. Breathe In Breathe Out
11. Unity Hymn