Our Conference of our denomination lost an active pastor in the last week. Today was the funeral, and she was on my mind. I thought about her church and how they'd get through this difficult transition. I thought about her family. I thought about her legacy.
It is difficult for all of us in the busy-ness of life, the bills that need to be paid and the errands that need to be run to remember that one day someone will give a eulogy at our funeral. But, if we could remember that, it would change the way we do all the other stuff. No one will talk about how much money we had, how successful we were at business, or how clean we kept the house. They will talk about the type of person you were, how you loved people, how you made others feel.
And they will talk about your relationship with God. If it was rocky, it will be a tough funeral. People will squirm and the pastor will try to come up with creative and nice ways to say that God wasn't really a part of your life. And everyone will leave feeling kind of awkward, with little assurance of where you are. Or, they will talk about how you shined with the light of Jesus. How Christ was the most important thing in your life. And everyone will smile, and they'll imagine how happy you are now living with your Creator. And your family will be so thankful that you had a strong faith. Or it will be something in between.
But...it will be something. We will all have a eulogy spoken over us. What will they say at yours?
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