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What will you leave?

What is the one thing that you would like to be remembered by??? It may not be just the one thing, but what is the legacy that you would like people to say about you when they think about you???

I’m so proud of my parents…. So proud!!! When I was growing up and living with them I thought that they were way too strict on us, and I thought that I lived under a dictatorship. I was smacked with a stick on numerous occasions and was forced to do chores every single day. (Looking back on it now it was the BEST thing for me) But now things have changed, I’ve grown up and can see my parents in a whole different light…

My parents have never owned their own house, they have never lived a rich life style, they have never had a new car and have never lived beyond our means and never (until recently) owned a credit card. Yet they have always managed to get through with 11 children. We grew our own fruit and veggie’s, we killed our own meat and always had full tummies. We were certainly blessed!

Just a couple of months ago my parents moved to India for a year. It has been their dream to move there and just help the villages and, you could say do some mission work. So at 70 years old, here they are achieving their life long dream. I had the amazing opportunity last week to visit them in India just 2hours NW of Kolkata one of the biggest cities in India and also where Mother Teresa was based from. The town was called Kharagpur and it was the same place where my mother grew up.

What my parents are doing their just blows me away. My mother has made connections in the local Kindergarten and Primary schools and regularly visits throughout the week and teaches them Christian songs. When I visited the school a was nearly in tears seeing hundreds of young kids singing and doing the actions to all the songs that they taught me when I was growing up. It was just AWESOME!!!!

My father regularly visits the local villages where he just connects with them and encourages them all when he can. He invests time and money supporting their education and food. He is a true hero as he has the option to retire in a nice house here in Australia and just let life pass him by. But he choices to live in India and chooses to support the villages and helps where he can. He is one of the only white people in the entire town and has picked up the language up very well. How many 70 year olds have you met that is learning a language, just started on his life long dream, and lives & supports villages in 3^rd world countries???

I’m so very proud of my parents and what they are currently doing. I feel blessed and truly honored to have amazing mentors in my life. Sometimes we think that being successful is a good legacy, or leaving 20 houses and 10 cars for our family is the best legacy. But I think that my parents are leaving a legacy behind that is compared to the very best of people that ever lived…

What will you leave???????

My brother recently passed away… this is a tribute of his memory!