Bigger than Life

While I was driving to work early this morning I thought of a dear friend of mine from junior and senior high school. She used to remind us, "to be Bigger than Life." She was always an optimist, a leader, and a motivator. At the time, I really didn't understand what she meant by being bigger than life. As I have gotten older and hopefully a little wiser, I think I am better understanding what she meant and I think there are different interpretations of her favorite saying:
In our every day life sometimes we start feeling consumed by it all, we have chapters to read, notes to study, skills to practice and that is just for school, then we have our work to do and if that isn't enough we have to go home and fix dinner and take out the trash. I believe that we often get lost in all of those 'life' things. Perhaps what Stephanie was saying was to rise above it all...be bigger than life.
But, there are also a lot of very beautiful and big things in life: think about the Pacific Ocean or Central Park or the Rocky Mountains. There are huge and wonderful things out there in each of our lives. Perhaps Stephanie was saying that we need to strive everyday to be even bigger than those big wonderful life things.
When I was in college I had a hard time gaining weight (those days are far behind me now. My roommates and I used to have "get big weekends" where we would eat hardy and work out as much as we could in order to get stronger and gain weight and get big. We worked hard at improving ourselves physically. I think we can use the same notion to get big mentally or spiritually or emotionally.
I don't know why "be bigger than life" flashed into my noggin this morning but I admonish you to have a get big weekend so that you can work on being bigger than life in the area that you might want or need the extra effort. I hope you come back next week a little bigger.