Live life to the fullest.
Are we called to live full lives?
It would appear so, at least going off of our cultural-religio DNA (life-liberty-happiness / life of abundance motifs).
But, we have some controvertible data, too, to contend with.
For example, how much time do we spend managing for the resources we think we need to live full (often, we mean powerful) lives?
Does God call us save up our resources so that we can feel the power of doing what is right and good? Or, are we called to live by something else, like the power of God's Spirit?
Can we really do this, though, without first exhausting our own resources (otherwise we remain unconvinced that we actually need to let go of them)?
If we're honest, when has our effort to save up our resources actually worked...especially, in terms of achieving the goal of fully-lived lives (by the way, isn't it a bit conspicuous by now that when we try to do this, our addictions also seem to be more activated)?
Don't we end up mostly feeling more owned by all the fullness we've achieved, rather than freed by it?
Giving things up, rather than saving things up, seems to more often lead towards the freedom and fulfillment we desire. Being empty, of all the things that we tend to think we need, seems to produce more full life because we are so much more able to embrace (and be embraced) when we are giving of ourselves, rather than keeping for ourselves.
What If...emptiness is the pathway to fullness, to true power? What if release, rather than determination, gives us access to it?
And we can't know this is true, until we live it.
