Circulating around the internet is an email called the “Dash Movie.” This is one of the best emails anyone can receive and has a great message for anyone that will read it.
To paraphrase from this email and to give a brief glimpse of what it is about, think about what you read on tombstones when you visit a cemetery. Most head stones will have a name, the date born and the date of death. Between those two dates will be a dash and this dash represents life on earth and this is what that person is going to be remembered for.
What do you want your dash to say about you? Will it speak of you in a way that says you were a worrier, that you worried about what you didn’t have instead of being thankful for what you did have? Will it display the remembrances of words such as God fearing, good, kind, honest, loving, unselfish, merciful, friend, humble, or will it allow your memory to be displayed by the opposite of these words. Will you leave this world and have people say you were a person of integrity? Will you be considered a good family member with leadership qualities and strengths that are going to be missed by all of your family and friends?
Are you going to be remembered as a person that was frugal with your finances, but a sharing individual, a good parent, a person that people wanted to be around? Are people going to say that you were honest, dependable, and sincere?
Many in today’s society fight very hard to become successful and do. They have the big cars and the big houses and plenty of material possessions that can be bought with money and your dash could reflect this, but it will quickly fade. Your dash is going to speak about you, not what you had. It will speak about your character and how you treated and worked with your fellow man. What do you want your dash to say about you?
Jesus tells us in the gospel of Matthew to not worry about tomorrow but take care of what we are doing today. Will your dash say that you were person that did not worry, but allowed the Holy Spirit to lead you? “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:34 NIV.
PRAYER
Father, lead me in the way you want me to live. Let me be what you want me to be and be the example of Christian living. Amen.
Suggested Readings
Sunday - Matthew 6: 25-34
Monday - Proverbs 12: 8-17
Tuesday - 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7
Wednesday - Acts 10: 1-2
Thursday - Matthew 5: 3-12
Friday - Hebrews 13: 15-19
Saturday - Job 2: 3
