Am I alive?

Okay, so I'm one week into my second term of teaching and feeling like I have missed about a week of sleep.  Actually, come to think of it, I can't really remember much of how it came to be Saturday anyway!  I hear some of you snigger...
I am sitting alone at my school, furiously making resources for the upcoming weeks and thinking to myself: "Am I actually living or simply alive?"  The difference I hear you ask...  Well the difference is this: to be alive one simply needs to respire (that's breathing and all that goes with it) and take up space but in order to live we need to do more than take up space and consume air.  Living, TRUE living, is about knowing our identity, being certain of the ability of our God and challenging the space we exist in, pushing out our boundaries and becoming extraordinary people.  Jesus told us that one of His missions was to give us life, but not just ordinary, boring old life: no no no, ABUNDANT life (John 10:10).  When we receive Him we receive ALL that He is inside of us!!  That means that ALL of His character, ALL of His nature, ALL of His ability resides in latent form inside of us.  More than that though, all of this resides in ME and YOU specifically.  Not just Peter or James or John, or Pastor what-his-name, or even the worship leader... you and I.  The bible tells us that WE have the mind of Christ (1 Cor 2:16), were created in His image (Gen 1:27), and are his sons and daughters given all of the inheritance of the first-born Son Jesus Christ himself (Rom 8)!!
So, I don't know about you, but alive is not what I want to be and existing is not what I want to be doing.  If you're like me, and sick of normality, tired of status-quo living and want more, the seek God with me and ask for all that he has for us.