Life Outside the Cage

One of the efficient employees of Arise Ministries lets me know she’s completed a task by sending an email announcing, “Done.” I love that word! A few days ago I facetiously told her, “I’m gonna put that on my headstone – Done!”

Immediately the connotations bounced around my brain as I realized it’s my perfect epitaph! According to Webster’s Dictionary, done means “completed, finished, through, exhausted or used up.” Here’s how the definitions line up with the one-word homage:

1. I’m through with my life on earth
2. I completed the tasks assigned to me by God
3. I’ve finished the race I was called to run
4. I have exhausted all avenues to glorify God
5. My time’s been expended in building His Kingdom

One of my favorite quotes states: “I may be burning the candle at both ends, but at least when I die, I won’t have any wick left.”

That’s my goal. I want to live my life in such a way that when I pass from this hemisphere to the heavenly realms, my to-do list will be stamped “complete.”

The best part will occur when I gaze into my Savior’s face and hear Him say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

What is your perfect epitaph?