“Integrity is a powerful force,
keeping you alive to others long after you’ve left their presence.”
— Mollie Marti
We are more
important within the motion of life than we ordinarily think we are. We are
constantly being observed, whether we like it or not, and people are observing us
whether they like it or not.
We leave a legacy
whether we like it or not.
Ours is the
choice as to the type of legacy we will leave. Is it to be a legacy defined by
our own conceitedness, laziness, or drivenness to succeed? Or, is the legacy we
will leave—now, within our interceding moments, and eternally—to be something
of eternal worth?
All that is
required is the direction of our effort, toward vice or virtue; will it be toward
things of building up the kingdom of self or building up things of the Kingdom of God?
The Privilege of
Choice
How is it that
God loves us so much to give us the choice as to what legacy we will leave? And
each moment we leave a legacy. Each moment we account for our actions by the
memory instilled in others regarding our dispositions, actions and inaction
toward them.
Each interaction
is a holy determination, which ripples with resonance into eternity.
We have a choice
how we act. Behind the action is our thinking. We have a choice how we will
think. What we will think is up to us. And whatever we think will inform our
actions. Whatever we think, also, will influence our feelings. And our feelings
are powerful. All of what we are arrives post-partum of our vested thinking.
The privilege of
choice is known by what we install within our hearts.
The privilege of
choice—in choosing the destiny of our legacy—is worn at that most visceral
level. Our decisions become our legacies. Our choices become those things we
will account for, one day. Our choices become those things we will account for,
today.
The Purpose of Life
within Legacy
God puts air into
our lungs, thoughts into our minds, and our spirit within our soul that we
would glorify him in our being.
The purpose of
life within the concept of legacy is to leave something of worth as a product
of our experiences. Each experience, each event in life, is holy. Each is a
gift of God. And each is an opportunity to leave a productive legacy.
The purpose of
life is to grow toward God, to give him all we have, and to give others all we
can reasonably give them. We invest in growth so we can leave a legacy.
© 2012 S. J. Wickham.
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