Below Are My Ten Eulogy Words As I Developed Them As Instructed By My Coach. You May Choose Your Own Descriptive Meaningful Words And Then Write Your Personal Focus For Each. I Suggest You Read Them Daily When You Rise. Sharpen Your Focus. Share. Revise Again. Focus Continually!
1. I Choose to Be Kind & Considerate.
My goal is to be like Jesus. I desire to leave everyone I meet better off than when first encountered/intersected.
2. I Choose to Model Integrity.
I choose to model the integrity authors Henry Cloud and John Townsend encourage in their three books titled “Boundaries”, “Integrity”, & “How People Grow”; as modeled by Jesus in the four Gospels and as written about throughout both the Old & New Testament.
3. I Choose to be a Truth Facilitator & when Asked Why I Do Not Value Much of Mainstream Media
I attempt to respond with proven timeless scriptural and historical wisdom to make sense of our world’s decades of lies and the ensuing “PlanDemic’s chaos.” But please understand, the church has failed historically and even today, we each are guilty of tarnishing Christ’s message in the marketplace of life.
4. I Choose to be a Faith Facilitator.
I anticipate and enjoy being approached by persons also struggling to find their life’s purpose and meaning through the forgiveness of their sins by Jesus Christ.
5. I Choose to be Respectful of Others.
I understand only God can judge, BUT He has equipped & empowered we as Christ Followers, if we are so invited to evaluate and encourage others, to do so, in a spirit of humility, forgiveness, and loving correction. Healing only comes when the spirit of judgement leaves.
6. I Choose when Possible to be Practically Inventive.
I gravitate toward situations where I detect a stalemate in choosing an appropriate decision or action. I depend on the Holy Spirit to interject His perspective into the mix.
7. I Choose to be a Finisher.
As in cricket and baseball, each team has members especially skilled for those moments in a game when either the “Finisher” as in cricket; or as the “Closer” in baseball, is summoned to work his “magic” and strategically, win the game! When the chips are down, I choose to dispense hope and the appropriate encouragement from scripture and other wisdom writings to transition well, or to win the game.
8. I Choose to Invest my Resources by paying forward.
I am keenly aware that even before creation, God has plans for his children. I desire to both discover and utilize my accompanying innate and acquired resources whether opportunities, skills, intelligence, money, discretionary time, relationships, etc., ultimately for His good and His glory.
9. I Choose to be Enthusiastic about Living Out my Allotted Days on Planet Earth.
Since I now realize enthusiasm is a gift from God and the publicly visible flowering expression on our faces of His love to me and others, I choose to honor his Son Jesus by finishing well enthusiastically. “He who endures to the end shall be saved.” Matt. 10:22, 24:13, and Mark 13:13. “We have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end.” Heb. 3:14. Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Our finish is determined by the choices we make as they are formed from the patterns we develop in route. Choices or patterns are another of those chicken or the egg situations! Loving enthusiasm is the flag flying high from the castle of my heart when King Jesus is in residence!
10. I am a Child of God.
Not only am I created in the image of God, but as a Christ Follower, I am also one of his children with eternal value, an heir, endowed and enabled by the Holy Spirit to be fruitful in kingdom work by assisting others to first discover and then nurturing their satisfaction of worthiness in His kingdom.
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IT IS IMPORTANT TO EXPRESS OUR GRATITUDE TO GOD DAILY. MY PERSONAL EXAMPLES FOLLOW BELOW. PERHAPS YOU’LL DESIRE TO WRITE YOUR OWN.
I Daily Express My Gratitude to God For These Blessings and Gifts….
1.) I am especially thankful for the Breath of Life.
2.) I am thankful for the vertical spiritual relationships I enjoy with the Trinity and the gift of salvation .
3.) I am thankful for horizontal spiritual relationships I enjoy with my spouse, close friends, family, church, etc. to perfect my salvation in community relationships.
4.) I am so very thankful in these days and times for the amazing gift of health I do possess.
5.) I am thankful for the vision of distribution God has given me to both invest and share of my talents and gifts.
6.) I am increasingly thankful as I age for the vast array of resources available to me including:
A. Rudimentary intelligence to perform and enhance everything on this page.
B. God’s written Word in all its forms including all the wisdom writings accumulated to date.
C. Satisfying relational opportunities.
D. Skills (both innate & acquired) to be enjoyed personally and shared by blessing others.
E . Discretionary time and funds to be enjoyed personally and invested in kingdom endeavors as prompted by the Spirit.
7.) I believe we are about to experience a new level of thankfulness for life’s necessities as we enter a ‘Dark Winter’ wherein some may experience shortages of food, water, and adequate shelter.
8.) I am thankful to have experienced the ‘techie’ advancements even though they may have contributed to our civilization’s ‘undoing’…
Complaining & gossiping is nigh impossible for a Christ Follower
while in worshipful praise & thanksgiving!