Being fully human is our job. Thinking and laughing and arranging and creating and relating and designing and nurturing and responding and reacting and pondering when googling became a verb and wondering and exploring and meditating and acting and making long lists of verbs and calling and talking and feeling and sharing and doubting if this paragraph is ever going to end and teaching and learning and jumping on a trampoline and sighing and celebrating and dancing and turning to the person next to you and saying: "This is living."
You can make your own list because you know what it is that makes you feel alive, what it is that feeds your soul, what it is that reminds you that the goal is to be fully human. What's on your list?
I've heard people say, "I'm only human," as if it's a bad thing. But being human isn't a bad thing; it's a good thing. It's what God intended. How could we ever be anything else?
The issue, then, isn't trying to escape our humanity in order to morph into something, or somebody else. The problem is all of the things that get in the way of being fully human. When a person says "I'm only human," perhaps what they mean is, "I have this habit of making choices that inhibit my being fully human." This is a primal struggle in all of us, and it goes all the way back to the garden of Eden. The temptation was, and is, to trade our full humanity for something else.
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