We often live fractured lives—rushing from one meeting to the next, one event to another. While partitions in life can be useful, there is an integrity, a wholeness to life that can be elusive. Partitions can lead us toward becoming one person in one place, a different person in another. We present one version of ourselves online, another at work, another in our neighborhoods, and yet another at church. Our thoughts, feelings, and very lives become divided. Yet, living an undivided life and being a person of integrity is possible! It takes work. It doesn’t come quickly or easily. But it can happen!

Each fall, WCPC embarks on a Stewardship Series, reminding us that we own nothing but steward everything. In God’s economy, nothing is earned—everything is gifted. With this perspective, our minds, bodies, and souls—along with our time, talents, and treasures—are not used to serve and promote ourselves but to glorify God and serve others.

A stewarded life can grow into an undivided life—one rooted in the contentment that all we have and all we are is a gift from God.

Such a life promotes wholeness, allowing us to be fully who we are, no matter where we are. This sort of integrity will shape our soul, our friendships and families, our marriages and relationships. It will inform how we approach vocation and career, income and wealth, possessions and leisure, and how we think about life’s second half and retirement.

Our stewardship series will take us to the Book of Proverbs, a book that teaches us that wisdom for living well begins with an undivided devotion to God. And it is this devotion that leads us into an undivided life. We will spend eight weeks exploring a healthy relationship to the many components of everyday life—our friendships, vocations, possessions, and more. Together, we will mine the ancient wisdom of Proverbs, seeking to cultivate a life that is undivided—and whole.