On Building an Enduring Legacy
Regardless of degree of personal achievement, sharing your life experience is often enough to leave a lasting impact on others.
Introduction
Let’s face it: Most of us are not superhuman.
If that metaphor is not to your liking, how about this: Most of us have not led lives of extraordinary achievement and our accomplishments are not destined to become the stuff of legend.
Is that more easily digestible?
If so, I’ll say this: Never sell yourself short.
Legacies=Branches of a Tree
Consider the wellspring of legacy as the roots of a common tree, the source of legacy as the tree’s trunk, and the impact of legacy as branches and leaves, all of which keep growing until or unless deliberately terminated by man.
Perhaps the tree is subsequently used for firewood or paper. That then becomes part of its legacy.
Let’s touch on what is perhaps history’s furthest-reaching legacy of all, that left behind by Jesus Christ.
Whether you believe Jesus to have been solely a carpenter, the true son of God or simply a fictional figure is not the point. The point is those are…
