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Leaving a Legacy
« on: March 24, 2008, 08:46:49 AM »
This is an excerpt from Tony Evan's devotion.

Leaving a legacy to the people in your life is a lot like passing the baton. Legacy is about transfer, and what you leave behind can help someone else go further than you did. What kind of legacy are you leaving behind? Developing and passing on a true spiritual legacy doesn’t just happen. Like Elijah passing on the prophet’s mantle to Elisha, you can share a Christian legacy.


So, the question I ask of you is....What kind of legacy are you leaving behind? Have you even considered it? What impact will your life have on your family's generations to come?

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Re: Leaving a Legacy
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2008, 08:51:02 AM »
This is an excerpt from Tony Evan's devotion.

Leaving a legacy to the people in your life is a lot like passing the baton. Legacy is about transfer, and what you leave behind can help someone else go further than you did. What kind of legacy are you leaving behind? Developing and passing on a true spiritual legacy doesn?t just happen. Like Elijah passing on the prophet?s mantle to Elisha, you can share a Christian legacy.


So, the question I ask of you is....What kind of legacy are you leaving behind? Have you even considered it? What impact will your life have on your family's generations to come?


Indeed.

I think about this all the time.

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« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2008, 08:53:46 AM »
I know that the legacy of my grandmother Rosie has propelled me to where I am now. I am very sensitive to the legacy I am leaving. God showed me that the principles that we are instilling with our children will go forth for generations to come. So I think about it everyday and I even pray for future generations.

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« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2008, 09:32:51 AM »
This is an excerpt from Tony Evan's devotion.

Leaving a legacy to the people in your life is a lot like passing the baton. Legacy is about transfer, and what you leave behind can help someone else go further than you did. What kind of legacy are you leaving behind? Developing and passing on a true spiritual legacy doesn?t just happen. Like Elijah passing on the prophet?s mantle to Elisha, you can share a Christian legacy.


So, the question I ask of you is....What kind of legacy are you leaving behind? Have you even considered it? What impact will your life have on your family's generations to come?

This has been on the forefront of my mind, recently, as a matter of fact. Very powerful and thought-provoking.
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Re: Leaving a Legacy
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2008, 09:49:10 AM »
I believe most spirit led people think about these things often. The lord has shown me how he will use me to establish a new pattern in my family's bloodline. I have a segment of males in my family who were womanizers, drunkards and overall hellraisers. None of them were educated men. I have been able to shatter all of those myths as of now but I do recognize that my assignment is daily. I must work at putting aside the tug and pull of the flesh in order to make this mandate come to pass. Most of the challenges in my life has been a direct result of this assignment. The great thing about it though is that I've learned to embrace the challenge. It has also enhanced my faith in GOD tremendously. It has also shown me that without him I can do absolutely nothing...
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Re: Leaving a Legacy
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2008, 11:51:32 AM »
Wonderful thread, SisterT.

I, too, think about this daily.

I can't really answer the question in depth at the moment, because my answer is far too complex for my mind to put to words right now... (in other words, my ADD is hard at work at the moment... lol).

But, I have been consciously working on my legacy for years now, after participating in a leadership workshop years ago on successorship.  In addition to discussing how we train future leaders and make plans to pass the baton down at church and in the workplace, she discussed what batons we pass down to our children and how we prepare them to succeed in the world.  It really got me to thinking about what I will leave my child(ren) when I pass on... what will be said of me when I die.  As Bishop Jakes said, I wonder what will my "dash" represent... what values will I instill in them, what habits, what belief systems, what knowledge, what morals... yeah, I think about it all the time.
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Re: Leaving a Legacy
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2008, 12:22:38 PM »
A few areas Ive considered it:

1.)A family foundation to fund family reunions, scholarships, etc. that exponentially grows in value and (equity) year after year, and building a huge portfolio of land development projects in our hometown of Sumter, SC using some family members as custodians of properties, trusts, and projects.

2.)Teaching several of my friends how to make money as a real estate investor, or how to buy their next house at an extreme discount

3.)Putting together a deal to get my church a new building

4.)Putting together a deal to get my personal trainer his own commercial space for a new gym.

5.)Teaching freinds how to play the piano and saxophone

6.)Teaching my elder family members how to take their IRA/401k's out of the stock market and put it inito some investments secured by equity in real property and make consistent 16%-100% ROI every year, tax deffered.

7.)Donate to libraries, charities, trusts, foundations, scholarships, schools, organizations in my families name

8.)Sow into men, women, and minsitries that have positively influenced me

9.)Become an angel investor, and sow into the visions of young businessmen and women

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Re: Leaving a Legacy
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2008, 12:33:55 PM »
This is very timely.  I was going to start a similar post but thought that it may step on some toes.  I was going to post in response to a local story where a local Pastor died in a freak accident at his home.  The one point that stood out about him is that it was said that he truly lived what he preached.  The man said some people just preach the Word, and others actually live the Word that they preach.  He said that is what he will always remember.  That said a lot.  That made me think on this very topic.  I personally want to leave a musical legacy that will show what I was about.  Over the last few days I have been overflowing with ideas.  I have just been hesitant about putting them down.  I think that it may be God giving me what I have been missing for a while.  Plus he's connecting me to some people that may be finally able to really help me.  I want to write songs that teach, and show others that someone else is dealing with some of the same things that they are.  I'm not going to limit the genre, because I want to reach as many as I can.  That may not sit right with some, but that's ok with me.   
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Re: Leaving a Legacy
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2008, 01:23:45 PM »
This is an excerpt from Tony Evan's devotion.

Leaving a legacy to the people in your life is a lot like passing the baton. Legacy is about transfer, and what you leave behind can help someone else go further than you did. What kind of legacy are you leaving behind? Developing and passing on a true spiritual legacy doesn?t just happen. Like Elijah passing on the prophet?s mantle to Elisha, you can share a Christian legacy.


So, the question I ask of you is....What kind of legacy are you leaving behind? Have you even considered it? What impact will your life have on your family's generations to come?



I am so glad you asked this!!!

Dealing with the funeral Saturday made me think about the same thing!  My Pastor's messages about "purpose and destiny" also put this on my mind.

If I died tomorrow (even today), the only thing that people would be able to say about me is "wow...he sure was a nice guy".  For some reason, that does not satisfy me!!

I would love be known as "one of the world's greatest songwriters, poets, graphic designers, playwrights, or choir directors".  But in all of the areas I'm good in, there are 25 billion people who do it so much better...making me feel that what I have to offer is "sub-standard", to say the least.

So, if old Hermie-Herm was to croak, my family would have a legacy of being nice to people...which is a genetic trait that runs rampant in the family anyway (even before I was born).

Maybe I can leave a legacy for looking good bald???

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Re: Leaving a Legacy
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2008, 01:48:41 PM »

If I died tomorrow (even today), the only thing that people would be able to say about me is "wow...he sure was a nice guy".  For some reason, that does not satisfy me!!

For a class assignmet, I had to write my obituary. In it, I had to write what others would say about me when I died. That was an eye opening experience, because a legacy is not what you think about yourself, but what others think about you.

Sure, you may witness to people and spread the Gospel---but do others see that in you, or do they see a lifestyle in action that doesn't match what the mouth is speaking.

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« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2008, 01:52:03 PM »
For a class assignmet, I had to write my obituary. In it, I had to write what others would say about me when I died. That was an eye opening experience, because a legacy is not what you think about yourself, but what others think about you.

Sure, you may witness to people and spread the Gospel---but do others see that in you, or do they see a lifestyle in action that doesn't match what the mouth is speaking.

"That would be in the eyes of the beholder", so that answer could go either way.

BUT...If I could just be satisfied with being "the next good guy with a good heart", I'd be okay with the whole thing.

But I WANT to be the next Berry Gordy, Tyler Perry, Ricky Dillard, O'landa Draper, Langston Hughes, and Bill Gates...while SURPASSING anything that they could have ever imagined doing.

I don't see that actually "happening" in my lifetime, but a dream is still a dream!  LOL!

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Re: Leaving a Legacy
« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2008, 02:00:56 PM »
For a class assignmet, I had to write my obituary. In it, I had to write what others would say about me when I died. That was an eye opening experience, because a legacy is not what you think about yourself, but what others think about you.

Sure, you may witness to people and spread the Gospel---but do others see that in you, or do they see a lifestyle in action that doesn't match what the mouth is speaking.

What class was that?  I had to write one, too.  It was probably one of the most life-changing experience I'd ever had, outside of encounters with the Holy Ghost.

As for that part in bold.... **just waving my hankie and rocking my head from side-to-side, church mother-style**
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« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2008, 02:14:03 PM »
What class was that?  I had to write one, too.  It was probably one of the most life-changing experience I'd ever had, outside of encounters with the Holy Ghost.

As for that part in bold.... **just waving my hankie and rocking my head from side-to-side, church mother-style**


WOW!  That may not be the best analogy....I know some church mothers at GPHMBC especially who are the epitome of the part in bold.

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Re: Leaving a Legacy
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2008, 02:18:17 PM »
"That would be in the eyes of the beholder", so that answer could go either way.

BUT...If I could just be satisfied with being "the next good guy with a good heart", I'd be okay with the whole thing.

But I WANT to be the next Berry Gordy, Tyler Perry, Ricky Dillard, O'landa Draper, Langston Hughes, and Bill Gates...while SURPASSING anything that they could have ever imagined doing.

I don't see that actually "happening" in my lifetime, but a dream is still a dream!  LOL!

If I had to put it this way I would want to be the next Prince, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, D'Angelo, Russell Simmons, Kirk Franklin, Daryl Coley, M.C.Hammer, and Bob Johnson.  But without the high heels, bikini drawers, racy lyrics, blindness, schizophrenia(Donny Hathaway), cornrows, weed problem, a really bad lisp, addiction to porn, and bankruptcy.  WHEW!!!!!!

Disclaimer:  When I speak of certain artists, I am referring to the talent that they possess.
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Re: Leaving a Legacy
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2008, 02:29:38 PM »
If I had to put it this way I would want to be the next Prince, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, D'Angelo, Russell Simmons, Kirk Franklin, Daryl Coley, M.C.Hammer, and Bob Johnson.  But without the high heels, bikini drawers, racy lyrics, blindness, schizophrenia(Donny Hathaway), cornrows, weed problem, a really bad lisp, addiction to porn, and bankruptcy.  WHEW!!!!!!

Disclaimer:  When I speak of certain artists, I am referring to the talent that they possess.


HEY NOW!!!  At one time I wanted to be the next D'Angelo, too....but (a) I would never be naked on my CD cover (fat or not fat), (b) I would never wear braids or corn rows, and (c) I have always been the "green boy" in the bunch who was scared to try weed no matter how HARMLESS they said it was in high schol!  LOL!

But to do what they've done (and honestly to make the money they made too), would be a LEGACY of having talent that "works for you" that I could leave behind.  Not to mention the thousands or millions I could leave behind for the Li'l Herm's of the world.

I would take my millions (if I had them) and buy clothes or pay for healthcare for homeless people...I just have that kinda heart anyway.  Yet for some reason, the millions pass ME by and I go down in history yet again for being "just another nice guy with a good heart...end of story".

Remember that story preachers tell at funerals about "the dash" between your birth date and death date?  Well, my dash is one of them short thangs that might as well not really be there.

Everyone at my funeral will say "that boy was nice...and he sho' could direct a choir", then they'll call for the undertakers and it'll be over in 10 minutes flat!

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Re: Leaving a Legacy
« Reply #15 on: March 24, 2008, 02:36:13 PM »
Write your own obituary! WOW! Now that is powerful. My cousin's step-mother passed and the only things people would say about her was she was a witch and only looked out for herself. Now if you were around her, she would tell you that she went to church on Sunday and loved GOD!

NOW THAT IS DEEP! Lord help me to do Your Will!

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Re: Leaving a Legacy
« Reply #16 on: March 24, 2008, 02:36:19 PM »

HEY NOW!!!  At one time I wanted to be the next D'Angelo, too....but (a) I would never be naked on my CD cover (fat or not fat), (b) I would never wear braids or corn rows, and (c) I have always been the "green boy" in the bunch who was scared to try weed no matter how HARMLESS they said it was in high schol!  LOL!

But to do what they've done (and honestly to make the money they made too), would be a LEGACY of having talent that "works for you" that I could leave behind.  Not to mention the thousands or millions I could leave behind for the Li'l Herm's of the world.

I would take my millions (if I had them) and buy clothes or pay for healthcare for homeless people...I just have that kinda heart anyway.  Yet for some reason, the millions pass ME by and I go down in history yet again for being "just another nice guy with a good heart...end of story".

Remember that story preachers tell at funerals about "the dash" between your birth date and death date?  Well, my dash is one of them short thangs that might as well not really be there.

Everyone at my funeral will say "that boy was nice...and he sho' could direct a choir", then they'll call for the undertakers and it'll be over in 10 minutes flat!

Why does, it seem to me, anyway, that your legacy is based on fame and fortune? ?/? :-\
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Re: Leaving a Legacy
« Reply #17 on: March 24, 2008, 02:41:37 PM »
Why does, it seem to me, anyway, that your legacy is based on fame and fortune? ?/? :-\

Because it seems that way "to you".  You kinda answered your own question, brother.  It seems that way to some who don't know me inwardly.

The original question was about leaving a legacy behind.

I don't want to leave one behind that says "he was good at some stuff...but he didn't go anywhere with it because there was always somebody four steps better".

If I had the millions that talents like mine generate FOR OTHERS, I would leave a legacy of being a humanitarian...giving to the poor...helping other struggling artists make it, starting support groups for victims of sexual abuse, and so forth.

But I don't.  So, I resolve myself to just being "the nice guy with the good heart".  Plain and simple.

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« Reply #18 on: March 24, 2008, 02:42:58 PM »
Why does, it seem to me, anyway, that your legacy is based on fame and fortune? ?/? :-\

I have so much to say...

But, I don't want to be misunderstood, or have to explain myself ten times to eleven different people... so I'll just.... shut up and KIM.  ;)
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« Reply #19 on: March 24, 2008, 02:45:26 PM »
I have so much to say...

But, I don't want to be misunderstood, or have to explain myself ten times to eleven different people... so I'll just.... shut up and KIM.  ;)

And besides, my answer should speak for itself.
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