Live a Life you will Remember

Live a life you will remember. Will you remember your life as something worth living or was it a life that was meaningless? Will my life be something that I can look back upon and say that I lived it fully, with a focus on who God was? I think that as a people, we have an opportunity to live our life to the fullest in a way that shows love and grace to the people around us. If you showed a random act of kindness or love to one person each day, you will have impacted 365 people a year. Those 365 then go on to impact another 365 and so on and so forth. Within a decade do you realize just how many people could be impacted?

Now lets flip that. If you hate one person a day, gossip about one person a day, hurt one person a day for a full year. There are 365 people that you have impacted incredibly negatively. Those 365 people go on to impact others and there is a different chain reaction. 

Now lets switch this one more time. In your life as you go through the day to day. What is your reason for being alive? In the midst of this pain, death, shame, guilt, and heartbreak, what is the point of living? I think that the answer is pretty simple, seek God and live a life worth living. The two terms are synonymous. If we are following God with all of our heart than we will be living a life worth living. I like to think that in the midst of this hurt that we see in the world, there is something to live for. 

Maybe its cheesy, and I am probably

naïve for feeling this way, but I think that Samwise Gamgee had it right when he said that there is some good still left in the world. See, we get so focused on living a life worth living, but when we focus on the one who made the life to begin with, I think then we begin to see our life from a different perspective. Instead of, focusing on the problems that we face, whether that is depression, shame, or pain, focus on the one who once said to us, "For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." 

In honor of that go and live your life in a way that is worth living! Tell the guy/gal that you like them, go bridge jumping (make sure the water is deep enough and there are no sharp rocks), go travel the world, but make sure that you live. Not necessarily a rich or extravagant life, but a good one nonetheless. Because as another wise wizard once said, "It matters not what someone is born but what they grow up to be."