“Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should.”

Ps 90:12 NLV

What if you had one year to live?

• What if you woke up every moment thinking about the story you wanted to live.
• What if you started with the end in mind?
• What if every action that you took was either taking you the right direction or the wrong direction?
• What if everything you did was either forming you into the image of God or de-forming you?
• What if you walked everyday with a clarity that rose above the chaos of everyday life?

• What happens when you look at everything from Eternity?
• What value will your choices have?

For no one can lay any foundation other than the one we already have—Jesus Christ.

Anyone who builds on that foundation may use a variety of materials—gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw. But on the judgment day, fire will reveal what kind of work each builder has done. The fire will show if a person’s work has any value. If the work survives, that builder will receive a reward. But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss. The builder will be saved, but like someone barely escaping through a wall of flames.

1 Cor 3:11-15

Hunter presented his own Eulogy, which we looks at almost every day. He gave the following guidelines:

• Edit it every year.
• Rewrite it every month.
• Change it as it evolves.

He said that he saw the Euology as the “Orienting String” that leads us from the present to the top of the mountain. It is like a plumbline that that keeps us course correcting the way that we should go.

It is the main plot of the story. Everything should revolve around the thread of your end-vision.

Benefits of a Eulogy

• It creates a Filter that helps us make better decisions.
• It helps to defend against the whirlwind of life and keep moving the right direction.
• It reminds us of our story.
• It helps us live a life that we want to live

Guidelines

• Tune into your God-given burdens and passions (turning over in your stomach- Burden)
• A good story involves community
• A good eulogy should probably embarrass you
• The vision should probably scare you
• A good eulogy is specific
• Your eulogy will evolve. 

How do you hope to be remembered?

Project all the way out till the day that you die. It’s good to acknowledge it. You are going to die. How do you want to live?

The average American male lives 78.5 years. How many kids are you going to have? How many grandchildren? Great-Grandchildren?

What will your grandchildren say about you? What about your great-granchildren?

My Eulogy (at least the first few sentences)