Good Morning,
Mark, is paraphrasing St Frances of Assisi who, as a part of an exhortation to the friars, said "while we have time, let us do good". This was his interpretation of Galatians 6:10 in the Bible.
About five years ago, I used the message: "Your life is made of two dates and a dash. Make the most of the dash" message. It's focus was on what we do with the time between the dash. This messaged focuses on those dates a well asking that we focus on doing good.
So, what is good? For some it may be the buildings, parks, or scholarships named after us so we are remembered after we are gone. For others, it might be the amount of money we have amassed during our lives. Too late, we realize that buildings are torn down or renamed for someone else and easy money is usually squandered. Even when they aren't how many of us know anything about the person whose name we see other than some old person who lived many years ago.
Good is helping a child to grow up with values and a desire to make the world a better place. Good is just listening when someone is having a bad day or suffering some kind of loss. Good is doing something positive just because it is the right thing to do and not for the rewards we might receive. Most good happens without acknowledgement or reward, as it should be. What is your good? There is no listing to check off the boxes. It is in our hearts, a feeling of "this is the right thing to do".
We are all still here. We still have time. Let us use that time to do good, big or small. Good is good.
Jim
