Just last week I received a post on my Facebook timeline for someone that I spent many years with leading worship together. She said:

Hi! Thinking about you this morning. I work at a place where we have chapel once a week. I think of you most weeks when we get to the part of the song when the worship leader says “lechyour” instead of “let your.” Haha! I still sing those two words correctly without even thinking thanks to your direction.  I hope you are all well!! Love and miss you guys!

Like all of us, I really appreciate encouragement. However, I began to think back on the people I’ve had the incredible opportunity to work with over the years. Those include my high school business students, my fellow worship leaders, and now, church leaders that I coach on a weekly basis. What do I want them to remember me for? While proper annunciation is a legacy to be left behind, I think I’m looking to leave behind something a bit more significant. For what do I truly want to be known? What is the impact I want to make on the lives of others? Here is what I’ve concluded (at least for now).

• I hope I taught you that I’m not perfect. Therefore, you don’t have to be.
• I hope that I taught you that Jesus is everything. All the rest of life boils down to just that one thing.
• I hope that I taught you that life is a journey, and we don’t have to get to our destination tomorrow. There are a lot of twists and turns and in the end it does to really matter if we get off track now and then.
• I hope I taught you to be loving and kind above everything else.
• I hope I taught you that life is about relationships. Nurture them, value them, and invest in them.
• I hope I taught you to work hard but no so hard as to jeopardize the important things in life including God and family.
• I hope I taught you that your character is more important than your talent and being consistent in that will get you farther than anything else in in life.

While I hope I have been able to impart some of those things, it’s a reminder of what truly is important in life . . . and a reminder that we should be leaving something behind that is truly valuable. May we all think about this more often.