In the life that I live I quite often examine the leftovers of different peoples’ lives. Everything from a wedding cake topper that was 60+ years old that was thrown into a pile of debris, to a lifelong collection of personal history that was just thrown into a dumpster. Military letters that were kept for years, just thrown away. Furniture that was in a home to comfort a family, sold for pennies on the dollar. I know of a man that all he has ever done is work and he worked to the sacrifice of truly getting to know his own family, and even though he is a true American success story from the material world, there is so much that I can see that he missed out on. As I am getting older, I have asked my family what they would want more, money, a bigger home, or time with me? The response is definitely time with me! Stuff only lasts a little while before it deteriorates or is out of fashion. Money cannot replace the time with a 5 year old playing with building blocks, making a tower taller than himself. I am working at being intentional to take the little bit of time that God has given me and live in a way that will have an impact for eternity. I want to make sure that I live a life that glorifies God and not myself. I want to invest the precious gifts that God has given me with all that I am to those that God has given me to minister too. I pray often over what is written in *James 4:14 Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air].* Friends, ask yourself, what will your legacy contain? What will your regrets be? On my fathers death bed, he apologized to my mother for the way he treated her. He turned off the T.V. and spent the last days of his life loving others more unselfishly than he did throughout it. My father never met his great grandchildren but I think they would have loved him. I realize that because of the life that I have led, the mistakes that I have made, the substance abuse that I subjected my body to, that there are descendants that I will never meet on earth. I pray that what I will be remembered for, the most important part of my legacy will be that everyone that I came to meet knew that I loved Jesus with all that I was and I loved others as much as I could with the short time God had given me. May the only LEFTOVERS of my life be remembered for nothing being about me, but everything about Him. HE>i.