One word challenge

**************************~Legacy~*************************


My word for the year... legacy. I was thinking over all of the things I wanted to do, or be, or accomplish and was trying to figure out how I could put them into one word... It wasn't easy. There wasn't one word that could focus all of the thoughts and feelings I had into such a tiny little package, but then it came to me. I was listening to a song by Nichole Nordeman, a song I had heard many times before, but God spoke to me in that moment, and it was amazing. I just felt His spirit and saw the woman HE saw in me, strong, passionate, caring, stubborn, Mother, Wife, Sister... daughter both of this earth and not. What would I leave when I leave this world? Would others see me as He does, would they see HIM in ME? And that's how I came to Legacy. I want to leave a Legacy of a woman who God's influence was apparent in my life, a legacy of a Mother who raised her children with love and discipline, a Godly example for my friends and family, a supportive and loving wife... a child of God. So that's my word. My challenge is in everything I do, in the relationships I develop, the conversations I have, the choices I make... everything is a cumulative effort to leave footprints that have God's love and mercy woven and spun into a beautiful masterpiece that will be my life's legacy.

Here are some of the Lyrics to the song:

I want to leave a legacy
How will they remember me?
Did I choose to love? Did I point to You
Enough to make a mark on things?
I want to leave an offering
A child of mercy and grace
Who blessed your name unapologetically
And leave that kind of legacy

Not well traveled, not well read
not well-to-do or well bred
Just want to hear instead,
"Well Done" good and faithful one...