What will be your legacy?

Elise Aleman
Love (Deut 6.4). 2020
Oil, and wax on canvas.

A famous and wealthy man died one day, at his extravagant funeral procession someone in the crowd asked, “I wonder how much he left behind?” the person standing next to him replied, “all of it!”

Can a man with little in worldly possessions leave his children wealth? Yes!

My father was a rich man but not by the world’s standards. He was rich in love—a family man. He was not a religious man—yet he was a godly man. I saw God in him, in turn, I taught my son about God, someday he’ll teach his children, and so on.

I’m talking about lessons of is equality, about loving your neighbor as yourself, about loving God with all your heart mind, and soul…these lessons begin at home. This inheritance is more valuable than all the riches of the world. God gave this responsivity to parents! Not the Sunday school teacher nor any teacher. These lessons are a way of life, they’re taught “at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.”

If you take responsibility to guide your children in the way they should walk, when you take your last breath you would have left a valuable legacy.

** A Prayer

Lord, I pray that you would equip me in raising my children to love you and follow you all the days of their lives. I pray that when I leave this earth, they will inherit the treasures of heaven, to love You with all their heart, soul, and strength.