Skip to main content

Legacy

I want to leave a legacy 
How will they remember me? 
Did I choose to love? 

Did I point to You enough to make a mark on things? 
I want to leave an offering 
A child of mercy and grace who blessed your name unapologetically 
And leave that kind of legacy

Nichole Nordeman

What are you doing today that will leave its mark on tomorrow?  Creating and leaving a legacy has nothing to do with having children and grandchildren.  It has to do with leaving a mark on your world that will outlast you - single, married, widowed, still a child, lived a long life, in the in-between of life.  No matter where you stand today (age, relational attachments, career, etc) you can be creating and leaving a legacy.  
Maybe it's morbid but have you ever had that thought, "If I died today, this very minute, who would miss me?  Remember me?  What would people say about me?  How would my funeral/memorial service go?"  I think it's actually worth considering.  Why?  Because if the initial answer is fear that you wouldn't be leaving a positive, healthy, inspiring mark then you might want to reconsider how you are living your life and change what you may leave behind.  :)  
That's the good news.  You can change it today.  But it has to start today because there is no time like the present.  What if your days on this earth ended tomorrow?  So face yourself and if you don't like what kind of mark you are going to leave behind then decide to change it immediately.  You can you know.  You can leave a legacy that will spread out like ripples on water, touching people you may never meet.  


Bonus Video for today's quote!


  

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment. 

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment. 

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.