I write often about integrity. It is important to me.
It was not always so.
Over the years I have had to do a lot of costly mending.
Some breaches of my integrity have hurt others, some perhaps beyond repair. I remain hopeful.
Integrity is often reduced to a matter of keeping your word or paying your debts on time.
I think it’s about all that and much more.
It is about being integrated. It’s being unified within.
Focused.
It’s about you and me bringing all of who we are to all of what we do and all of what we stand for.
It’s welding the body (physical), heart (passions), head (thinking), spirit and soul (the core of life and identity) into one focused life. While people are more complicated than dividing them up into neat portions and parts, to do so is an attractive trend.
Integrity is investing all of our “components” or “parts” into who and what we are and into what we do with our lives.
Perhaps you have discovered that whatever you do with one “part” of you impacts all the other “parts” of you. That’s why when you get your body “in shape” you feel better all round and even think more clearly!
Sadly, it also works in the other direction.
Integrity (holiness) is about living in such a manner that they all work together for our individual and for our communal good.
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