"What should our legacy be? For some of us, planting mustard seeds. Doing something which will outlast us. Something which matters. Why? At the end of the day, sometimes there is more than just the end of the day. There is legacy. And eternal legacy matters the most of all."
Relax folks - this post has nothing to do with food. It does, however, have everything to do with the term "menu". Like in a menu, there are several choices to choose from. Or in the case of life, the menu of things that can go wrong with you. You don't get to choose from the menu - the menu chooses for you. And that is the terrible irony - or as some put it, "this is that thing called life."
The irony of life's menu is no matter how well you eat, how well you live, how much you exercise, or even how often you go to church - a routine doctor's wellness visit can turn into a life changing event. Diseases on the menu which you may have never heard of, can become an unwelcomed guest into your life. And some things which can go askew in your health, can be fixed by some of our almost mystical doctors who practice medicine in Minnesota. And there are other things on the menu, that all the skill in the world cannot yet touch. Life changing, and yes, in some cases, life ending.
An old adage that the old timers would use from time to time was this - "Life - nobody gets out of here alive." True words. The life expectancy in this country is still 76 years old. For those in my graduating class, those words do not ring hollow. Everybody in the class of "67" is either 76 or 77 years old. Or as we would say in the Navy - "we are in the zone".
Why bring up such a morbid subject on an early spring day? Because many of us are aging. As a real good pastor friend of mine told me recently, "We are in that season of life". Which season? The final season. Now many of us are thinking back on what we have done in our lives, maybe what we should have done differently, or done better. But most important - what we can do that counts with the days we have left. Why? Each year, every year, that menu get longer with more items on it. And more and more of the items are not good.
Since we can't go back into our pasts and correct mistake we might have made, and we can't go into the future since our future is not promised to us, all we can do is live for each day. Make each day count. What should our legacy be? For some of us, planting mustard seeds along our path. We could be doing something which will outlast us. Something which matters. Why? At the end of the day, sometimes there is more than just the end of the day. There is legacy. And eternal legacy is what matters most of all.
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