Life to the Full

“I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” - Jesus

I read these words of Jesus, and then look at this life I am expected to live and have to wonder: Is this the life “to the full” that Jesus was talking about? Did he intend for me to work 40-50 hours a week at a job that I don’t really enjoy in order to make ends meet? Did he intend me to have to scrimp and save for 45 years so that I can have a comfortable retirement? Did he really mean that I should spend the best years of my life stuck in some office, working for someone else, so that I can buy a nice house, car, and clothes? Was this meaningless work the life to the full that was promised to me? My mind keeps screaming that it isn’t, yet I am told at every turn, by everyone I know, that that life is the life waiting for me after college. I was grown up expecting that life after school, yet as it draws nearer and nearer the feeling wells up greater and greater that it is not right. Yet, what then am I supposed to do? What is the life to the full?

I think those are questions for another night.