How do you want to be remembered?

I get caught up in the pressure and busyness of the day.  I run and push and strive and ulcerate.  It is sooooo much fun (sarcasm).

But is that what I want to be remembered for?  Do I want to be known as someone who made a ton of money?  Do I want people to know me as the guy who saved or started a company?  A business?

That’s not my hope and dream.

I want to be seen as a loving husband, a good dad.  I want to be known for my ability to see God, see beauty, see love.  I want to be remembered for my ability to care, my propensity for worship, my reckless abandon where Jesus is concerned.  I want to leave a legacy where I matter little and my King matters much.

See, life is too short for me to matter.  There are too many things of greater significance to me.  I can’t take myself to seriously when I see my position in the universe.  Do I want to matter more?  I’m not sure there is a point to me mattering.

God thinks I’m important.  He saw me among the billions and asked me to be His child.  Isn’t that enough.  I think so.

And life is too short to waste my time on promoting myself.  

Life is just too short.