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    A Life Well Lived: Living To Leave A Legacy
    A Life Well Lived: Living To Leave A Legacy
    A Life Well Lived: Living To Leave A Legacy
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    A Life Well Lived: Living To Leave A Legacy

    By Kirimi Barine and Stephen Barine

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    What is a well-lived life? How do you measure if your life will be one of those to be considered to have been lived beautifully when your time is up on this planet? Will your life be summed up by your bank account, collectables, or charitable offerings? Or will it be your public acclaim, fame, travels or who you knew? If you say you do not know, take a moment and reflect. What has touched you most deeply through the life of someone you've loved?

    Using the lessons from the best-lived life – the life of Jesus Christ, and their individual experiences so far, the authors offers you tips on how to live well by:

    • Investing in valuable relationships.
    • Valuing and investing in people.
    • Enduring life's challenges
    • Living a disciplined and passionate life and
    • Finishing well.

     

    If you want to live well and leave a legacy, this book is well worth your time. It is a sure help for any reader determined to leave a legacy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPUBLISHING INSTITUTE OF AFRICA
    Release dateApr 14, 2020
    ISBN9781393972990
    A Life Well Lived: Living To Leave A Legacy

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      A Life Well Lived - Kirimi Barine

      INTRODUCTION

      When I (Kirimi) was growing up, there was a common song in my heart language whose translation would mean: The day I die, I will be very happy to leave this earthly body because the troubles and wars in this world are determined to ensure that I do not gain eternal life. The song is memorable for me not just because of the words but because of a remark made by one of my teachers in grade (class) four. He said he could not sing that song because he was not looking forward to death. To my teacher, singing the song was equivalent to inviting death. The most difficult question even at that young age was: What will people remember me for when, and not if, I die? How is it that the memory of some people who died a while ago is still fresh in our minds, yet there are others who died recently but have faded from our memory? The most difficult question even at that young age was to ask myself what people would remember me for when and not if I die? Would the memory of my journey through life disappear immediately after my exit? This question continues to challenge me as I reflect on the ways diff erent people would remember me.

      Not every memory is positive. We do not always remember people for good things. One day, I had a conversation with some friends on the subject of mourning. One of my friends mentioned that not all those who weep for the dead person do so out of their love and aff ection for them. He told us that when you find people weeping over a person who has died, there are some who are genuine because they loved him or her but there are others who are only sad because the person who has died owed them and they are only sad that there is no one to pay their debt. I hope no one will keep a memory of you after death for an unpaid debt.

      Recently, an acquaintance of mine died. His death left me with an unanswered question. Three weeks before his death, we had a meeting and he promised to tell me a story after I finished organizing a major conference I was hosting. He didn’t live to tell me the story. We never had the chance to talk again. I wonder what the stor y he was to share was all about. I will never get to know.

      Paul in his letter to the Philippians says that for him, to live is Christ and to die is gain. I wonder how many of us would consider death as gain like Paul did. The common word used to express death in most circumstances is an expression of loss. Would you consider death as a gain or loss for you?

      1 Peter 2:11 reminds us that we are foreigners and exiles in this world. If you are a foreigner or an exile in another country, that means a time will come when you will have to go back to your home country. This scripture is a reminder that sooner or later, our visit here on earth will be over.

      Job compares our lives here on earth to flowers and shadows. "Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble. They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure. Job 14:1-2 (TNIV). This analogy by Job paints the real image of our lives. We come into this world, our lives are short-lived and then depart and leave the scene. Irrespective of how we lived our lives, we leave some sort of impression behind us. Some footprints are larger than others and some are erased very quickly and forgotten. Will memories of you last or fade as soon as you are out of the scene? What will people remember you for?

      I am of the opinion that every person who is alive would want to make a diff erence in their lifetime, whether in the church, at their work place, or in the home. However, many of us are not intentional about the diff erence we want to make. A good question worth reflecting on is: What kind of legacy will you want to leave when you exit this world? What would be the correct epitaph on your grave when you die? Will you be known for being the wisest, richest or most educated man or woman of your time?

      I often find myself engaged with groups either teaching, preaching, or training them and any time I ask the people whether they would want to leave a legacy, most of them say they would. However, when I ask how intentional they are and what they are doing to ensure they leave a legacy, there is little or sometimes no response.

      In one of my leadership classes, I asked students to pause for a moment and reflect on the value they have added to the world in their lifetime for which they could be remembered if their lives were to come to an abrupt end at that very moment. This exercise proved challenging in part because many of the students were Africans, and in most African communities’ traditions, it is taboo to think of your own death. That could possibly be the reason why many of our African people die without a written will for fear of thinking of one’s death.

      Death is a reality in our lives. Hebrews 9:27 remind us that each one has an appointment with death. One thing I can say with confidence is that for anyone who is alive today, (including you, who is reading this book!), you have an appointment with death. This appointment is only known to the creator since only He sets the appointment. It is therefore imperative that each of us live each day with eternity in mind and with the thought of leaving a worthy legacy. Will you have lived your life to the fullest when the time to leave comes?

      The book of Ecclesiastes reminds us that there is a time for every purpose under heaven, a time to be born, and a time to die. This affirms the fact that death is certain.

      A friend of mine classifies people into two categories — those who do so much with their lives that when they die it is difficult to decided what to omit from their eulogy; and those do so little with their lives that it is hard to find anything to say about them. Needless to say, it is worthwhile to examine into which category your life will be classified.

      More often than not, when confronted with the question of what contribution one is making in society, many people excuse themselves for lack of resources or other reasons. But we fail to realize that to whom much is given, much is expected, and just like in the Parable of the Talents, the person who received five talents and the one who got two talents received the same

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