Almost everyone lives a divided life where we are out of touch with our soul – that life-giving core of the human self, with its hunger for truth and justice, love and forgiveness that has the power to guide our lives.  

Parker Palmer,  Director of the Center for Courage and Renewal, has wisely said: “Congruence between our inner lives and outer actions is what our soul longs for and whenever we live in defiance of this inner voice our life is divided and our spirit suffers under the burden of duplicity.”

What our soul yearns for are wholeness and integrity. We need to care for our soul.

One of the best ideas about integrity and the soul comes from Dr. Dallas Willard: “Our soul is like an inner stream of water, which gives strength, direction, and harmony to every other element of our life. When that stream is as it should be, we are constantly refreshed and exuberant in all we do, because our soul itself is then profusely rooted in the vastness of God and his kingdom, including nature; and all else within us is enlivened and directed by that stream.” Your life depends on the health of the stream.

The stream is your soul, and you are the keeper.

In this second of four podcasts on Integrity, I explore how our inner life, our soul, is where we find the capacity for living “divided no more.” 

“For God alone, my soul in silence waits. From God comes my salvation. Flourishing. (Psalm 62)

With you on the Journey! 

Rob+