Your dash
Mar 3rd, 2006 by Accidental Thinker
Since my last blog post, I have been to Nashville and back. Before my next blog post, I will have been to Michigan and back. Then a few days at home before I am off enjoying some well earned R&R for a full week aboard the Mariner of the Seas. I normally don’t have such a hectic travel schedule, but it’s piling up this year for some reason. My goal is to give myself a week or so after returning from the cruise to catch up on work, then get myself back into a regular blogging schedule. I sure miss it, but I just have too many irons in the fire right now. The blogging suffers, but only temporarily.
In the meantime I leave you with this thought from a keynote speaker at last week’s conference which hit home and has really stayed with me.
When you die, your gravestone will have two dates. Your birth, and your death. The whole rest of your life is represented by nothing more than a small dash. The tiniest of lines. Yet packed into that single piece of punctuation is your entire life story. All your accomplishments and disappointments. Your successes and failures. The relationships you have built with the people around you. What will YOUR dash represent about you? What will it signify to the people you leave behind? I know what I want mine to say about me.
Wow, that’s a powerful statement, I can see why it stuc with you. I’ll be thinking on that one.
Hey, I was just in Nashville. It’s only about an hour and a half from me. I had to pick up my son at the airport. Sorry I missed you. 🙂
That’s more travelling than I’ve done in years! Travel safe :o)
As for the gravestone stuff (as someone who has a phobia about death!), quite frankly when I am dead, I couldn’t care less whether I even have a gravestone. Those who know me will remember, and those who don’t, should have other stuff to be thinking about ;o)
I love cruises! Hope you had a ball! As for business travel… not so much! ~ jb///
I already have a gravestone. It has the first date on it. I don’t know if the second date will ever be inscribed, but I’m diligently working on getting all the good I can in between now and then. Seeing your name in stone is a BIG incentive.
That is insane, I never thought about things that way.
I don’t have a clue. Enjoy the cruise.
Have fun on your cruise 🙂
While in MI wave and say hi! Hope you enjoy your R&R on the cruise. I’ve only been on one and really enjoyed it. Looking forward to seeing more of you when you get back and get caught up!
Put another line up and down through the dash. I hope mine shows that Christ was a part of my life.
What an inspiring thought. We all have a chance to more or less write our own epitaph, don’t we…
I agree with FTS – very inspiring. Travel safely!
Sounds like you must have been at a Zig Ziglar seminar! The things that are important enough to leave behind, will NEVER be left… they will be carried on in the hearts of those who loved you! ~ jb///