Monday, January 28, 2008

I can't believe it's almost the end of January!! I have decided on two goals for the month of February. The first is to have my posts up early each morning. No more getting them up so late in the day. The second is to start a list of links to helpful and fun Christian sites for women. If you have any that you would like to see added, please let me know!

Oh, and I just thought of a third goal. I would also like to post a list of books that are great resources for us as women in our Christian walks and in our relationships with each other. I would love to have you help me by recommending books that have been helpful to you.

Thanks so much for continuing to visit my site!

-Becky


Eulogies

As for me, my life has already been poured out as an offering to God. The time of my death is near. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful. (2 Timothy 4:6, 7, NLT)

Two Sundays ago one of the pastors at our church was preaching on... okay, this is embarrassing; I have no idea what he was preaching on. Does that ever happen to you?? Although I couldn't tell you his topic to save my life, I do remember one thing he said that has stuck with me the past eight days. He said that he had done an exercise that had altered his way of thinking. No, not handweights or sit-ups or running or any of the machines at the gym. What he had done was to sit down and write out his eulogy. He wrote it in the third person as though he had died at the age of 94 and his family and friends were looking back on his life and his accomplishments.

For some of you, that may sound a little morbid. But really it's not. Life is short; shorter for some than for others. And truthfully, none of us have any idea what kind of lifespan God has granted us. Our days are numbered and only He knows the number.

This morning I visited a Christian website I now go to daily and the writer was talking about a fatal accident that occurred right at the end of her driveway yesterday. A woman fell asleep at the wheel and hit a cyclist before hitting their mailbox. The driver was severely injured; the 30 yr. old cyclist was killed, leaving behind a wife and two children. He had no idea when he left the house yesterday morning that it was the final day of his life. Life is short...

Our pastor's eulogy-writing exercise was similar to something I did this past New Year's Eve. I sat and wrote out my Life List, my goals I want to accomplish before I die. The difference between my LifeList and the eulogy is that my Life List didn't include what I hoped to accomplish as a daughter of God, as a mother, as a friend, as a sister.....

Life is short. We need to live our lives on purpose and with purpose. What kind of wife and mother and friend and sister and employee and neighbor and Christian do you want to be? What dreams has God placed in your heart? What passions has He given you? What talents? When your life is over, when God calls you home, who will people say that you were? What will you have accomplished? What legacy will you have left behind?

Why don't you grab a cup of coffee and let's sit down and write our eulogies. Let's fight the good fight and be able to finish our race knowing that we were faithful.