Excerpt  

The gift of life. In creating us God gifted us with life—that vital interior force which is the inner source of all our being and our doing. That life manifests itself in three important urges or impulses: to enjoy being who we are, to grow into fuller being, and to give to others. We experience these inner urges resonating within us in the impulses to like ourselves, to become more than we are, and to do good. When we no longer feel any urge to enjoy, to grow and to give, we become bored, languid, listless. We are dying. We are out of touch with the sources of life within us.

          Life, then, is our basic purpose; it is God’s deepest desire for us. His will in our regard is that we “have life, and have it to the full.” On our part, we must choose life, embrace whatever fosters it, and put aside whatever hinders it.

Jn. 1:4 (Life in Christ)

 Ps. 139:13-8 (Wonderfully made)

 Rm. 8:6-11 (Death in the unspiritual)

 Jn. 10:10 (Jesus came to give life     to the full)

 Duet. 30:15-20 (Life is ours to choose)