Wow! What an awesome question! I was SO touched by Mena's TED talk, which I finally listened to yesterday. She shared a lot of thoughts that are close to my own heart. Maybe I just think too much, but often I think of how much I love my daughters and granddaughters and how much I already love the future generations that will come out of these children. It makes me sad to think that in a few generations they won't even know who their great-great-great-grandmum was... perhaps not even my name and certainly not that I thought about them and prayed for them even though they did not yet exist on earth. And that thought is not meant to be self-focused, but I know what a loss it is to not even be sure of the names and stories of my own great-grandparents... how quickly our family stories are lost in the busy-ness of life. What consumed their thoughts? Where did they invest their hearts? What were the simple, every-day events that made them laugh or cry or wonder? What were their hopes and dreams for themselves, for their children and grandchildren? What would they want me to know about them?
Long story short... I am not a gifted orator with revolutional or revelational thoughts for the world... I am simply an expert on "me" and if I could write a book about anything it would be the story of my heart... communicated to and for my family to carry with them and pass to future loved ones.
