What do we want to be remembered for?
Yesterday I went to a memorial service for a colleague of mine from a nearby school. Barry Titcomb, a math teacher and the math team coach at Mountain Valley High School, passed away unexpectedly last week, and the memorial service was held in the auditorium of his school Tuesday afternoon. It was a wonderful time of reflection on his life, and the school and his family should be commended for the service they put together to remember him.Such events tend to give us cause to think about our own lives - not just the life of the deceased. And there are two questions I found myself asking, as I listened to his friends, colleagues, and students talk about him.
QUESTION 1:
What do I want to be remembered for?
QUESTION 2:
What WILL I be remembered for?
Too often, we don't spend time thinking about such things. It's always good for us to take the time to think about where we are, and where we are going.
Of course, these two questions naturally lead to a third question:
Are the answers to questions 1 and 2 the same?
Things for us to think about. . .
Posted On May 17, 2006 at 9:09 PM
On May 17, 2006 Trent wrote: Stephen Covey, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, though a Mormon, paints your question in a slightly different manner.
He frames the same basic inquiry but he places it into a very personal setting. The scenerio that he paints is your own funeral. His basic challenge is what will people be saying about you and how can you change your life in order for them to remember you well.
I think though, that at that point you will care very little. I like his scenerio, but I would replace the funeral with the throne room of heaven. By the time my funeral happens it seems as though I will already understand what my spiritual legacy was. And it is that appointment that ought to concern us most.
2 Corinthians 5:8
We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
Just some thoughts,
Trent
On May 18, 2006 Doug wrote: Well, this all makes me think of one of my favorite passages in Ecclesiastes:
Ecc 7:2
It is better to go to a house of mourning
Than to go to a house of feasting
Because that is the end of every man,
And the living takes it to heart.
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