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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 929

Is there beauty, is there truth, is there goodness in your work?

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So if we begin to see Wills as love in action,
what color and what brush do we use to
apply our love?
How large or small the strokes?
How strong and bounding are our lines,
how wide do we open our horizons?
What is the very best we can
accomplish with this Will?
What value have we to leave the world—
our accumulations of chairs and tables,
of money and lands?
What we have done with our lives?
What we have made possible for others
to do with theirs?
What we have learned that might advantage them?
Our way of looking at and
interacting with the world?
Our view of the world as friendly or otherwise?
Our laughter and tears?
Our kisses and sanctuary?

:- Doug.

We have given our children life;
everything else is lesser.
We can feed and water that life,
or put cages around it in an attempt to shape it.
But we are not the ones to harvest it.
The harvest belongs to life itself.

:- Doug.

A Will is an act of love
For no one is required to write
It says I will not leave you in a mess
I love you so I provide
This I accomplish—or attempt
This I have learned that
you might benefit
I love you so
I leave you a piece of myself
I challenge you to
do this with your life
do this for our world
I love you so I leave you
Unfinished tasks, cleaned up messes,
Wisdom, worldviews, challenges
Plans, goals, restrictions,
Pleas, incentives, wishes,
Dreams, prayers
These are of the faces of love

:- Doug.