We have all been
privy to the statement,
“He is so heavenly
minded, he’s no earthly good.”
Well, I for one am
convinced that real ‘heavenly mindedness’ includes the realization that we
simply ‘cannot stay here’ and that what we do, we must do now. And I think this
includes not only the tangible objects of life which we choose to bequeath to
our children, and our children’s children, but the present impact we are given
to exercise over the next generation, and whatever God has inspired us to leave
behind through the agency of the written word.
Perhaps there’s no
particular manner in which we, as individuals, ought to bequeath something of
ourselves to the generations which will follow us. But I think a gauge of their
inherent value to us is whether we choose to do anything at all of this nature.
As I sit typing out
one alphabetic character after another to my left are ten or twelve attachable
drives containing multiplied thousands of genealogical, ministerial and
literary files and photos. Behind me is a bookcase, and the four shelves of it
are lined with binders representing printed copies of the vast majority of my
works.
I think the
priority, the focus, should be to leave something
behind. Whatever it is that is good and true about us, and with which we wish
to touch our descendants, that is where we should devote our energies.
By
William McDonald, PhD. Excerpt from "(Mc)Donald's Daily Diary" Vol. 50. Copyright pending
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