Legacy moments

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about our daily choices and the ramifications of them. My parents raised me to think about my choices knowing they all have consequences, good and bad. But the older I get the more I realize how crucially important our choices are. I’m not talking about whether I should have a pb&j for lunch or a salad, although these choices have major consequences, over time! I’m talking about our legacy choices. For example when I was a young mama and would get in a fight with my husband I would picture five or ten years down the road and decide how I wanted to move forward and typically chose forgiveness and love. That is a legacy decision. Something that I decided affected future generations. It’s popular in our current society to do what feels good and gets us what we want for that brief moment. It’s a very selfish decision making process and that’s fine if that’s how you want to live. I’m not here to tell anyone how to do it! I’m just saying that for those of us who do want to have a positive influence on our future generations then we need to stop and think during all of the many forks in the road how our decisions big or small are going to potentially affect our families and others down the road. 2 Corinthians 9:6 says you will grow what you plant (paraphrased) and I also like to remember it like this: choose your hard. Life is going to be hard either way, we don’t live in the garden of Eden in case you haven’t noticed. Most of the decisions we face are going to be hard but which decision are you going to look back on in ten, twenty or forty years and say, “you know what? I’m so glad I made that hard choice then because look how positively that one choice has now spilled over and affected my grandchildren!” Choosing the easy way now does feel good for the moment. But I promise you making some of those hard choices when you don’t feel like it feels like a million bucks when you look into your grand baby’s eyes down the road. Let me be the first to encourage you to make some of those legacy choices this week! You’ve got this!