I had to get a second table for today’s meeting. There is a knock on the door and Lorraine pops her head in…”Sorry I’m late! Can I still join you ?”
Emily scoots her chair over and says, “You can sit by me if you’d like.”
DM asks Lorraine if she’d mind sharing a few things about herself before they get to the last question.
“You, bet! she says. I would describe myself as intense, funny, driven, cynical, creative, indecisive and an authentic Believer in Jesus. In my free time, I love to play games with my husband and kids. We all enjoy hanging out together. I also love my friends and wish I had more time to spend with those who live elsewhere who I miss greatly! I love to teach the Bible, Blog, just plain relax (cause I go so hard the rest of the time. Eat out/ I’m a lousy cook and eating out is a good family and friend time. I love to see movies, theatre, even TV- (I love stories, acting, music and dance.) I enjoy reading, worship (when it’s good it’s good and like I said, I like music) I love to travel-travel-travel! and finally, I would like to get caught up in life. There are things I want to do that would get done if that’s all I had to do- one of the things I’d really like to do is finish my creative memory albums for the kids. A typical day for me looks like this: On the weekdays, I get up, get the girls off to school- Dad takes them. Feed the dogs…let them out. Relax for a bit, have breakfast, go to work…Work- that would take a whole page in itself..come home, hang w/ the girls, eat dinner, (husband does most of the cooking @ this point) Help clean up, help the kids with their violin and piano lessons, homework, get the girls to bed,Relax, blog, do stuff that needs to be done…watch a little TV, get in bed, have devotions, pray with husband , SLEEP,.. then get up the next morning and do it again.
“OK Everybody, here’s our last question” DM says, ‘At the end of your life, what would you like to be remembered for? Emily, why don’t you start.
“Ok, Well, I want to be remembered as someone who was caring about PEOPLE! I want people to know that no matter Who they are, I whether it’s a homeless person looking for their next meal, or a drug addict looking for their next fix, I want people to know that they MATTER and that God has a plan for them. When I’m gone, I want people to remember I cared about others, no matter what the circumstances, race, religion, etc.”
Melissa is next. “First and foremost, that I loved others, I enjoyed life and I was a person with a living faith!”
Rhosie looks around and says, ” I want to be remembered as a loving child to my family (parents, siblings, niece and nephews) a good friend, a kind of person who somehow touched other people’s lives and made a difference to them. Someone who lived life to the fullest and was a good servant of God!”
Meadow exclaims, ” That I fought the good fight, was genuine, loved the Lord, and others, was faithful, and was a great Christian influence on my family and friends.”
MM (DM’s wife) says, ” I would like to be remembered as genuine, loved others and had a living faith.”
Enola shares, “I would like to be remembered as a woman of God, who loved and served Him, a godly wife and mother, a servant and had a good sense of humor! You’re next Lawyerchik!”
Lawyerchik smiles and says, ” I want to be remembered as someone who cared about people, someone I know recently told me she appreciated that I at least acted like I was listening when I talked,and it stung. I was listening- and I do listen- but if people I care about don’t know I care about them I’ve messed up. I want to be remembered as someone who was interested in the world around me, how it worked and how to make it better, that I loved my parents and my family more than anything in the world. I’d like to say I would like people to remember that I was a Christian- but if I’m going to be totally honest, it probably doesn’t hit my consciousness as often as I would like…”
Eva shares, “I hope that there will be people who think of me as having had a positive influence on their lives. I don’t particularly want fame, but I’d like to have made the world a bit of a better place on a personal, human level.”
Hope sitting next to Eva continues…” I would like to be remembered as someone who had a love for people, that I had a heart for Christ, and loved what he loved! Kristina you’re next.”
Kristina continues,” I want it to be remembered for being a faithful child of God, that He meant more to me than this earth, that I helped others, and was loving, kind and joyful. Kristina pauses for a second and then says,….wow, I need to work on some of those for them to be true!”
Andrea, looks around and says,” Everyone, I have to say first of all, that I came late in my life to Jesus, but I love him deeply, and I always tried to let people know how much He meant to me.”
Shel who is sitting on the end of the table smiles and says,” If God doesn’t rapture me I would like my grave stone to read, ” She was a lover of broken souls.” I would like people to say about me, “I always felt better for having spent time with her.” She used her talents and gifts to make the world a better place,” “My gosh, she was funny.”
Eclexia is next…”I want to be remembered that I was understanding. For me, this is part of feeling truly connected to people- if I say I love you, but what I love is my understanding of you and that understanding is far from reality, I’m not loving you as much as I’m loving my own image of you. Some of that is inevitable. But for me, truly knowing and understanding people and communicating that understanding is part of loving you- package deal of who you are and not loving just the parts which are already what I want you to be like. Secondly, I want to be remembered that I helped people understand- especially understanding other people, but also ideas (I guess that’s saying I’d like to be remembered for being a mentor- between people, and people, between people and ideas, people and their struggles….Thirdly, that my faith in God helped someone else persevere in their faith. And finally, to be remembered that I was fun to talk to. I’m not actually a very funny person, so I”m not sure why this matters…I suppose it has to do with not wanting to feel like people just “put up with me” vs. actually enjoy spending time with me, even though the ways I think don’t always make sense to people I know.”
” Lorraine , Why don’t you go next with that question, then I’ll wrap things up.” says DM.
“OK, I’d like to be remembered that I loved Jesus, and that when people saw my life, they wondered what was so different and why I was so content. That I loved others (family and friends) well, and grew to love them better….I’d like to say, that in some way, I helped them know Jesus better!”
DM is last. “ I would like to be remembered as someone who lived life to the full, loved his wife and children well..and they knew it, loved people, and wasn’t afraid to step out into uncharted waters. I’ve been called a Renaissance man on more than one occasion..I had to look it up after the second time because I didn’t know what it meant. Well, everyone, we’re going to have to wrap this up….make sure you take your dishes with you if you brought something today…
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If you’re reading this and would like to host our next get together along with a possible discussion question…just leave a comment. You don’t even have to be one of the people who are here today, though you would need to have your own blog in order to do this..What it would involve is this: You’d have a question that everyone who wanted to would answer…we’d all send our answers to you via e-mail and you then would put together post like this…I’d want you to agree to have something posted within a couple of weeks….what we’ve in essence done is created an on line small group that meets at different blogs…. to summarize…we need two things for this to come together…#1 A new question and #2 a blogger who is willing to host this…if no one comes forward, then that’s OK..but wanted to tell all of you..thank you for participating!!! Sincerely, DM
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