What to be known for?

In a culture that seems to offer a plethera of choices, opportunities, and options, the question remains how will we determine our legacy? Technology and tranportation makes information of any kind quickly and readily at our fingertips. With churches on every corner, multiple schooling options, libraries in every community, and online access to the world, how does anyone navigate through the competing confusion to find the direction and purpose that fits their personality, giftings, dreams, and desires. In a culture where virtual businesses are bought and sold for millions, carreers are launched through reality TV competetions, people win hundreds of thousands of dollars as contestants on gameshows, and a person who plays a certain sport well enough can make 20 times the income of the average person that comes to watch them. How can anyone maintain a focus on true values like hard work, honesty, integrity, faithfulness, and consistency when our culture bombards the impressionable with all the wrong impressions. Legacy then is passing on a thousand enticing options to choose one bold value, no matter how simple or seemingly unpopular to attach ourselves to and never let go. Legacy is fearlessly traveling the path of most resistence and never looking back. Legacy is finishing any stage of life without allowing yourself to be stripped of every hope, dream, and moral fiber. To emerge from the battles of everyday life with character and integrity intact is a feat that few accomplish, but to consider your closely guarded priorities not as a trophy to be put on display, but as a batton to be passed to the next generation, that is legacy!