Your last thousand words

Imagine a scenario in which you have only one thousand words left, either written or spoken, how would you spend them? Would you use them to give advice? How about yelling about all the things that bother you? Would you spend them discussing politics? How would you spend your last one thousand words?

As a pastor I have been there for peoples last thousand words so this question is not ethereal but truly based in reality. There will actually come a time when you only have one thousand words left. Considering what you will say might not be a bad idea. What truly matters to you might be left unsaid.

We often go through life looking at each day as just that, another day, to be used or not simply as we please. We rarely consider that it might be our last. Or that what we are saying might be the last thing they hear or the last thing we say. If this were not true I expect that we read and hear might be significantly different.

What do you want to be remembered for? Should you wait for your last day to begin to build that memory? Now I realize that our jobs often dictate what we write and say for a large part of our day but what about the remaining parts, what dictates those words?

Your last one thousand words might matter greatly, they will be your last contribution to those you interact with. What do you want to leave them knowing? The untrained tongue speaks only what it knows and the unpracticed hand will fail in times of stress.

May your day be filled with hope and a future.

Blessings