“Then Jesus said to the crowd, ‘If any of you wants to be My follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross daily, and follow Me.’” (Luke 9:23 NLT)
In his classic book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” author Steven Covey begins by asking us, the readers, to imagine a series of our friends standing to speak at our own memorial service. The stories we would like them to tell, Covey suggests, and the achievements we would want to see referenced, amount to a good starting place when we consider our long-term goals.
It doesn’t matter if we are twelve, thirty-five, sixty-eight, or pushing ninety, each one of us has the privilege and the opportunity to engage the time we have available with the conscious application of meaning and purpose…
For me, three distinct certainties emerge: 1) Each moment holds the possibility of fullness; that is our opportunity. 2) Each day can be a gift we share with a needy world; that is our decision. 3) Each lifetime bears the fruit of those daily decisions; that will be our legacy.
-- Adapted from “Get Real: A Spiritual Journey for Men” by Derek Maul
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