...About the Shallow World in Between

So here goes...my first post...
I've been thinking...
30 years and I'm left with one question:

WHAT'S THE POINT OF BEING "IN BETWEEN"?

N.T. Wright said it better than I ever could: "How can you live with the terrifying thought that the hurricane has become human? That the fire has become flesh? That Life itself has walked into our midst? Christianity either means that, or it means nothing. It is the most devastating disclosure of the deepest reality in the world, or its a sham, a total nonsense. Most people, unable to cope with saying either of those two things are condemned to live in the shallow world in between."

I act like I get that. Do I? You ever see the 90's movie "HEAT"? If you haven't don't bother...it's not good. That 3 hour movie is like 2 hours and 45 minutes too long. Anyway, they refer to the police as the "heat" and Rober De Niro's character lives by one credo: "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner." Even a mobster in a bad cops & robbers movie understood that 'things' are temporary. Here today and gone tomorrow.

Ever feel like the temporary things of life get in the way of really living? I have bills to pay... the mortgage is due... I'll get to caring for people when my schedule eases up in the spring... is this the right moment to share about God in my life? ...will people think I am weird if I do? A million reasons, a hundred excuses not to do the very thing required of me - love God; love others. Instead, I complicate the simple. I've found that when my life is about ME, drama finds its way into every crevice - molehills become mountains. Perspective is lost. But, when my life is about GOD, everything changes. Everything. Light pours in. It's unstoppable. My eyes are opened to reality. The main thing is the main thing. Life becomes big - bigger than me, that's for sure. Life has purpose. Why wouldn't I want this kind of clarity all the time? Why be "condemned to live in the shallow world in between"? To really live is to pour out your life for others. Christ came to show us that - to take away the "compartments" of life that say job here, loving people over there, serving God in that other place. He came to show us what it means to really live. "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full" (Jn 10:10).

So what is this full life He's talking about? Aren't you curious?