This was an e-mail the I have recieved from my friend Laura at co-op. I asked her permission to use it. (yes, you have permission to use it. Jim said that was the highest compliment for him and Grandpa. Thanks so much.)Laura's Grandfather went home to be with the Lord and this is what her father wrote.
Thought for the day
With my dad's illness and with much time to study and meditate I have thought back many times how over the seventy two years of mom and dad's married life how they have loved the Lord and each other. They have lived in Anderson all their lives in a small home paid for years ago, and will die here and be buried just a few miles from where they have lived all these years.
In my youth, their lives were a foundation upon which I could stand when all else was crumbling. I saw them in times of war, hardships, death and dying stand firm in what they believed and did the things that were right. I have never meet a man that my dad didn't like or spoke bad about. They have loved Jesus through thick and thin, and sung His praises. What a foundation of love and God fearing people, what an example of love and caring. Now comes that hard question; " What kind of foundation will we leave behind? What will your legacy be? What will your children say of you, what will you have given back to this world? I hope and pray it isn't just money, or how hard you worked, and there is nothing wrong with those things, but I pray and hope it is memories on how much you loved God and the things that made this world a better place to be than when you found it.
Take a little time or maybe take a lot of time today and think about your legacy.
In Jesus name and power
Jim
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