12.8.23 - Psalm 48:12-14
What do you envision for the future, for those who will walk the land after you? How can you live out that legacy today?
Walk around Zion. Go around it. Count its towers. Examine its embankments. Walk through its palaces. Then you can tell the next generation, “This God is our God forever and ever. They will lead us beyond death.
My family moved from Maine to Florida when I was four. We visited our home state over the years, but I’d never fully understood what this place meant to the generations of family who went before me and how this place shaped who I am today.
Having recently returned, I walk our yard admiring the fir trees, listening to the stream that cuts through, dividing the property, and I think about how my dad grew up not far from here, how my mom graduated high school just down the road, how grandparents, great-grandparents, and distant ancestors arrived here.
It is humbling to take each step with that lens. To think of previous generations and whether I’m living what they envisioned.
Am I creating the world they wanted to see? And what about the world I want to see?
Walking in my ancestors footsteps can be an eye-opening experience. Sometimes I just need to get the lay of the land and look for opportunities to write my own story into this journey.
What do you envision for the future, for those who will walk the land after you? How can you live out that legacy today?
--Amanda Creek