What We Leave Behind
The dictionary defines Legacy as "Something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past:"
I've come to believe that the Legacy we leave by the way we live is much more important than any physical treasure we might leave behind. I have reached a time in my life when you start to think about things...you know what I mean. You think about things you've done and people you've known, about places you've been and things you've accomplished.
You wake up one day and realize that there is a lot more behind you than in front of you and you start to wonder if you did a good job. Unfortunately there's no do-over, we have to get it right the first time.
Thinking back I suppose I had a pretty good run, though these last few months I've learned that I made more mistakes than I thought I did. But then it's hard not to make mistakes when you don't have all the information in. We are given an assignment and certain tools to work with but we're expected to work out how to do the job ourselves. God has an annoying way of wanting us to think and work for ourselves yet all the while depending heavily on him.
This life lasts only a little while and the only true success we know is in what we leave behind us. What will people remember you by when you leave this world? Will it truly be a good thing if little Johnny follows in Daddy's footsteps, or walks in Daddy's shoes? Will they stand over you at the end and talk about how you could tell a good joke? Or how well you could hold your beer? Will they say you spoke with kindness? Were you honest? Were you true? Most of all who or what did you focus on? What did you find important? These are the things that will rise to the top when all else is gone. Be careful with this one, others may see you differently than you see yourself. What you talk about, what you spend your time and money on is what you give your life to. Are you sure you want to be remembered as a person who gave his life to golf or the soaps? Or maybe even what you did on the internet? Think about it,
2 Cor.4:17 speaks to us from another prospective " For our light affliction, which is but a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are unseen. For the things that are seen are temporary,but the things that are not seen are eternal."
Someone is watching you. And what you leave with them is your legacy. More than any bit of money or property you might leave behind.
Like it or not you will leave some sort of legacy, believe it or not it is important what we do. I want to leave something behind when I depart this world. I want my children and my grandchildren to remember me as a woman of God. Someone who did more than talk about her faith, I want to be remembered as someone who lived her faith. I want to leave a legacy that will cause other people for generations to come to want to serve God.
What will be remembered about you after you are gone? We are all building our legacy regardless of our marital status or weather or not we have children.
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever dreamed.-Ronald Reagan
I've come to believe that the Legacy we leave by the way we live is much more important than any physical treasure we might leave behind. I have reached a time in my life when you start to think about things...you know what I mean. You think about things you've done and people you've known, about places you've been and things you've accomplished.
You wake up one day and realize that there is a lot more behind you than in front of you and you start to wonder if you did a good job. Unfortunately there's no do-over, we have to get it right the first time.
Thinking back I suppose I had a pretty good run, though these last few months I've learned that I made more mistakes than I thought I did. But then it's hard not to make mistakes when you don't have all the information in. We are given an assignment and certain tools to work with but we're expected to work out how to do the job ourselves. God has an annoying way of wanting us to think and work for ourselves yet all the while depending heavily on him.
This life lasts only a little while and the only true success we know is in what we leave behind us. What will people remember you by when you leave this world? Will it truly be a good thing if little Johnny follows in Daddy's footsteps, or walks in Daddy's shoes? Will they stand over you at the end and talk about how you could tell a good joke? Or how well you could hold your beer? Will they say you spoke with kindness? Were you honest? Were you true? Most of all who or what did you focus on? What did you find important? These are the things that will rise to the top when all else is gone. Be careful with this one, others may see you differently than you see yourself. What you talk about, what you spend your time and money on is what you give your life to. Are you sure you want to be remembered as a person who gave his life to golf or the soaps? Or maybe even what you did on the internet? Think about it,
2 Cor.4:17 speaks to us from another prospective " For our light affliction, which is but a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are unseen. For the things that are seen are temporary,but the things that are not seen are eternal."
Someone is watching you. And what you leave with them is your legacy. More than any bit of money or property you might leave behind.
Like it or not you will leave some sort of legacy, believe it or not it is important what we do. I want to leave something behind when I depart this world. I want my children and my grandchildren to remember me as a woman of God. Someone who did more than talk about her faith, I want to be remembered as someone who lived her faith. I want to leave a legacy that will cause other people for generations to come to want to serve God.
What will be remembered about you after you are gone? We are all building our legacy regardless of our marital status or weather or not we have children.
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever dreamed.-Ronald Reagan
The Bridge Builder By Will Allen Dromgoole
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head;
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head;
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”
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