I Don't Want My Life To Be Lame

Got a phone call tonight that the husband of one of my coworkers passed away today.  He'd been battling cancer for the last year.  The fight ended for him today.  She, on the other hand, will continue to battle new things now.  Loss.  Loneliness.  Learning to live with this kind of gut wrenching change.  She's a tough lady.  I know she'll be okay.  But these kinds of things make the world look different no matter who you are.

So my thoughts and prayers are with her today.  I'm wondering how I can support her.  I'm wondering if she'll come back to work in the Fall.  I'm wondering a lot of things.

Death always forces us to confront our own mortality.  I don't want my life to be lame.  Once again I'm reminded of things that are most important.  People.  Family.  Love.  Those are the things that I want to be invested in.  When this body of mine breathes it's last breath, I want to be remembered for all that I gave to the world, not for what I took from it.

I like what author Ann Lamotte says in her latest book, Plan B: "On the day that I die, I want to have had dessert."  Like her, I want to enjoy all that God's creation has to offer.  I want to be a part of someone's happiness and good memories.

Legacies aren't something you create for yourself.  They're something that you do for others.