How much do you care about your legacy?

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In other words, after you die, what people will say about you.
“Oh Deirdre was such a selfless woman. She was so giving. She always made time to listen to my problems. She made me feel so special.”
“Tom was such a good Christian. He gave up so much of his free time to volunteering in different Parish ministries, plus working for charity. He always had a smile on his face as if it was never a burden to him.”
Does it really matter? I mean, we wont be alive to hear their words. Isn’t it better to worry about what God thinks of us?
 
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In reality, it matter not what they say about us when we are dead but how fervently they pray for us.

I’d hope people can say some good things, maybe erect a statue or two and dedicate a university in my honour but other than that, I won’t expect anything major.
 
I struggle too much with what folks think of me now. Trying not to be concerned about later. Let go.
 
I don’t care what anybody says about me. The only thing I want to hear when I die is “Well done, good and faithful servant” from the only man that matters: Jesus Christ.
 
I don’t care at all because I don’t have family so it doesn’t really matter. I think if I had kids it would matter
 
I work in hospital administration. Odd bal that I am, I play my shakuhachi, guitar, bongo drums. If something happened to me I sometimes think people might still hear me playing.
 
Im not near as concerned what people thing of me when i take my last breath. I’m more concerned with how Jesus views me.
 
I think about my kids when I think about my legacy, and I care very very much.
 
Since I don’t have children I wonder who, if anyone, will take interest in my journals.
 
I understand, I entrusted my children to Jesus every night since my divorce when they were 4 and 3. Even now in my heart, as they are 21, and 23 and in college I do the same when at night when I say prayers. I feel that is the best legacy we can leave our kids, our belief in our Faith. I entrust them still to Jesus our savior every night before I go to bed when I say prayers. God bless.
 
Naturally, I would prefer to be praised rather than reviled.

However, in this life, I am more concerned about doing what is right and what will get me (and as many people I come in contact with as possible) to heaven.
 
Good thing to do.

I’m reminded when a friend of my grandfather’s died. My grandfather was a vicar, you see, of the Church of England - at the graveside service, where my granda was presiding, his wife spoke up and said “Well, it’s a good thing the old sod is dead because he’s probably getting the prayer now he needed when he was alive.” As long as no one hates me that much, I’ll be happy.
 
Well, to quote Cato the Elder, after I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
 
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