Who are the people in your life that come to mind most often? Who are the people that when you hear their names, you smile? What is is about them that causes you to remember them fondly and brings them to your mind regularly?

Be the person who you would like to remember. How? You treat them like you would want to be treated. You love them like you want to be loved. You do for them what the people you remember most in a good way did for you.

The best way to show gratitude for someone who’s no longer here is to be to someone else what they were to you. To show the kindness and generosity to another that they showed to you.

Chances are, the people who impacted you most and left the biggest impression on you were the ones who more than anyone else were trying to live like Jesus. So if you want to honor that legacy, you follow in their footsteps by following in the footsteps of Jesus and living like He did.

The way you do that is to let His life flow through you by the time you spend with Him just as those who loved you best spent time with you.

How would you like people to remember you? Maybe the better question is how would you like people to remember the Jesus they saw in you?