What A Difference A Year Makes/Dash Between The Years

I have been slow about putting anything down in my blogs but today I want to change that and get back to blogging regularly. A year ago at the end of June I had my first heart attack. In July I was still dying and going down fast. At the end of Aug. I had another heart attack but this was when God decided to change things and to heal the damage in my heart so I could live. Then on Sept 28, 2010, after years of being in a wheelchair and having to be waited on, God prompted me to walk and on faith I stood up out of my chair and started walking. My muscles from the first step were back and I have been walking ever since. Not only walking but walking 20 min miles, which for someone who wasn't walking and now is, I don't think is too bad. I am once again able to do housework and cooking and my favorite thing baking. So this last year a lot of things have changed some, like these, for the better and others that aren't better. The one thing I do know is this, that God can take the bad things and make good out of them, as long as we trust Him and that is what we do every day.

Last year at this time I wrote a blog about how I want to be remembered when my life is over. I am reposting it, but not because I am dying, but because I am living and in so doing wanting to honor God and show God's love to all I meet. So things in life change some for the better and what isn't for the better God will make good when we walk each day with him.

Thursday, July 16, 2009
Dash between the years

I heard more than once from our pastor friend that on our headstone there will be the year we are born, then a dash, and then the year we die. That small dash between the years represents our life. It is such a small thing that represents all that we are and have done. This got me to thinking what will that dash represent for me? What will I have accomplished and how will I be remembered.

I want to be remembered for being a good wife, mother, grandmother, sister, daughter, mother in law, and friend. But most of all I want to be remembered for being kind, compassionate,loving, and above all else as an obedient, loving, follower of Jesus. I don't want to be remembered for the things I have or for being famous, but for being a person that loved God and my family and did good for others. What really is a better legacy than to leave with the people you love the knowledge of your love for God and your love for them.

I want to live life where I can serve God and others. I want to give love to as many people as I can and make their lives better. I want to tell all I meet about my God. I want, in every part of my life, to glorify God. I want to share and spend time with my husband and family and make good memories with them.

At church, Westside Family Church, our new series is on Treasure Hunt and what treasure do we hunt for, is it stuff or God. I want my life to be a hunt for the treasures of God and heaven and not stuff. The verses we studied were Matt.6:19-20 (19)Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. (20)But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.(NIV)I want, when people think of me, to know that I was on a hunt for heavenly treasures through out my life, treasures I willing shared with all.

Here are some of my quotes I have made into bookmarks:

MEMORIES TAKE A MOMENT TO CREATE AND A LIFE TIME TO ENJOY

REMEMBER WHEN ONLY HAPPENS WHEN YOU SPEND TIME WITH EACH OTHER

WHAT IS A LEGACY? SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU RICH AND FAMOUS OR SOMETHING I CAN LEAVE TO YOU TO REMEMBER THAT I WAS HERE AND I LOVED YOU

GO THROUGH LIFE MAKING SURE YOU TOUCH THOSE AROUND YOU IN A POSITIVE WAY

STRIVE TO BE KNOWN NOT JUST FOR HOW YOU LIVE BUT ALSO FOR HOW YOU GIVE

MAKE SURE WHEN PEOPLE SEE YOU THEY SEE CHRIST

Let us all take time to make that dash between the years stand for a life well lived loving, giving, and sharing but most of all serving and glorifying GOD!