Pastor Ron Glusenkamp and his wife, Sue Ann Glusenkamp, are writing the three–session June, July/August 2006 study on health, wholeness (or wellness), and abundant living. The study lifts up the Women of the ELCA's Act Boldly triennium theme and our new Raising Up Healthy Women and Girls initiative.

Using the New Testament and the Wholeness Wheel as reference, they will explore health assessment and balance, seeking and receiving healing, and striving for and achieving goals. They include helpful tips about health and wholeness, shaping attitudes, changing behaviors, and improving health.

June and July/August 2006
In these two summer issues, Lutheran Woman Today will explore how women can act boldly by taking care of their own health and well–being and by reaching out to others. A healthful and more peaceful world starts within us, but we are called to make a difference beyond our boundaries.
 

The Wholeness Wheel
The Wholeness Wheel is a guide to balancing all aspects of health. The wheel was developed by the Inter–Lutheran Coordinating Committee on Ministerial Health and Wellness to help depict the interconnectedness of the individual aspects of wellness.

You are the center of the wheel as a new creation through baptism and a member of the body of Christ. Spiritual health surrounds, contains and supports us through faith and our relationship with God. Within the wheel are the individual aspects of wellness — Physical, emotional, social/interpersonal, vocational and intellectual.

To be whole means to keep these aspects in balance by intentionally nurturing and attending to each. If one area is neglected the whole will be out of balance.