Showing posts with label legacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legacy. Show all posts

Sunday, December 26, 2010

How will they remember me?

Pastor Thomas--he was the reason so many people were crying this morning at church. Today, he gave his last official sermon to our congregation (It wasn't an ooshy-gooshy speech like you may think). He and his family leave in a few days to do full time ministry with orphans in Uganda.

Now, before I start rambling about how he was the greatest youth pastor in the whole (stinkin') world and how he duct taped himself to a brick pillar of our church and gave a sermon to raise money for missions....
...I'll skip the sap and go straight to the meat and potatoes.

"PT" makes me want to live an intentional life. Looking at the way he and his wife share their lives with people stirs my appetite to live in such a way that will be remembered. Thomas recently posted a Facebook note about leaving legacies and said this: "I have learned a thousand times and still keep having to learn again the truth that if I am not intentional and focused about living out what is most important in my life then there is no legacy."


I've thought about three things I want to be remembered for:

1. I loved my Lord with every fiber of my existence and was passionate about spreading his love.
2. I never belonged to the world but only to my Father.
3. I made other people hungry for an abundant life found only in a relationship with Jesus Christ.

I want to challenge you to do some purposeful thinking and write down three things you want to be remembered for. Feel free to post it as a comment.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Legacy

I don't mind if you've got something nice to say about me

I enjoy an accolade like the rest
You could take my picture
And hang it in a gallery
Of all who's who and so-n-so's
That used to be the best
At such and such
It wouldn't matter much

I won't lie, it feels alright to see your name in lights
We all need an 'Atta boy' or 'Atta girl'
But in the end I'd like to hang my hat on more besides
The temporary trappings of this world



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



I don't have to look too far or too long awhile
To make a lengthy list of all that I enjoy
It's an accumulating
Trinket and a treasure pile
Where moth and rust,
Thieves and such
Will soon enough destroy



Not well traveled, not well read,
Not well-to-do or well bred
I just want to hear instead,
"Well done
Good and faithful one..."



I don't mind if you've got something nice to say about me.


Nicole Nordeman