Episode 1. Seeking Sanity & Sanctity
Episode 1. Seeking Sanity & Sanctity
Show Notes
This Whole Life is about being fully alive! It’s about pursuing an authentic, integrated life and allowing every part - mind, body, and soul - to function as a whole so that we can love and serve God and all your fellow humans.
To live this in the real world requires a genuine look at our mental health in the context of faith. “Mental health” isn’t a four letter word and it’s not just for people who go to therapy. Being attentive to our mental health is crucial for EVERY follower of Christ, because when we’re mentally healthy we’re able to give our whole self to God.
As people of faith, let’s attend to our mental health: because sound mental health smooths the path to wholeness and holiness. It’s why we’re “seeking sanity and sanctity.” Welcome to This Whole Life!
Show Notes
“The world is thy ship and not thy home.” - St. Thérèse of Lisieux
“The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I do not need you,’ nor again the head to the feet, ‘I do not need you.’” - 1 Corinthians 12:21
“The glory of God is a man fully alive.” – St. Irenaeus
When we lack integration, we are not whole, complete…it impedes our ability to be “fully alive”.
“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone! Therefore, you shall love the LORD, your God, with your whole heart, and with your whole being, and with your whole strength.”
- Deuteronomy 6:4-5You are meant to be an integrated whole person, and the whole of you was made for union with God
God loves the WHOLE of you and will settle for nothing less than the WHOLE of you
“By the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been ineffective.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:10
Challenge by Choice
Part 1: Get a journal
Part 2: Reflect & journal with this prompt: “What is one help and one hindrance going on in my life that impacts my ability to live an integrated life, that is: mind, body and soul working together for human flourishing and sanctification?”