“On the third day the lawyer gave his life to the care and direction of his Creator” (Chapter Eleven, Big Book)
On a few occasions, I have said that recovery was great because I had a “big life”.
In a sense, there is a valid point here:
I have an occupation, I am married, I am busy, and I have stuff. There’s more going on than just the pub and the kebab shop.
However, here’re the problems with the statement.
“I”: I am at the origin of the proposition; I am the subject.
“I have”: Except I don’t: nothing is possessed; only temporarily occupied, lent, experienced, adjacent.
“I have a”: Life is not divisible into individual portions: there is no such thing as ‘a’ life, like what I experience is cordoned off from the other portions.
“I have a life”: Life does not belong to me. I belong to God, and God places me within life.
“I have a big life”: The number of activities, their complexity, and their magnitude in the eyes of the world are of no significance.
What matters is seeking God and doing God’s will. That can be done as well in a ‘small’ life as in a ‘big’ one.