At Capacity

There is something so surreal about sitting in a funeral service…there is this incredible quiet reflection that I believe is going on inside each person that is present….a time to consider your own mortality…a moment to think about how you’re doing at this thing called “life“…you begin to grade yourself….then there is the reminiscing about all those who have gone on…and the reality that there is a legacy that we will all leave…that our footprint will be left in the earth…as I sat and listened to the wonderful things that were said about this amazing woman…I thought…she has left so many deposits in the hearts of so many…her presence in the room at that moment was so very strong…as I looked around the church it was at capacity…and it seemed like that was the way she lived her life…at capacity…to love…to give…to encourage….to extend herself…at capacity…there is no getting around death…it is something no one likes to think about…but it is an appointment we all must keep…but..I believe funerals are God’s way of giving us an opportunity to recalibrate…to measure what we have done and are doing… to what still needs to be done…it begs us to ask the question…”what am I leaving behind?”…”Am I at capacity or is there still space to be filled?…this woman lived her life at capacity…what a wonderful legacy…to have poured out all that had been poured in…isn’t that what we all should desire?…to leave empty?…because we have given it all away…that’s my goal..what’s yours?