Wyrick's Writings/Life Is Not What It Is But What You Make It: ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A MAN...AND ANOTHER MAN...

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His name was Alfred Lunde and I never knew him. I only read about him and relate the story his preacher tells of this ninety-two year old patriarch.

Alfred knew his days were numbered and so he had asked his minister to come and sit down with him and discuss what he wanted said at his funeral.

And this was his request, “Tell them that everything I have is garbage compared to having Jesus Christ in my life. Tell them that the world does not belong to us, that this world belongs to God. We are here to improve the earth and not to destroy it. It is tragic not to leave the world a better place. So many people celebrate life in such a way they have left nothing behind to improve the world.”

What a glorious place the world could be if we all followed this man’s wisdom. And by way of emphasis.

Who will come to your funeral and why or why not?

Her name was Patti Arnold and she was never voted to any great office. She never wrote great books or composed great songs. The only thing she did was love people and love her Lord - with such extravagance that she made mustard seed moments for hundreds of people, even when she was dying of cancer and roaming around the cancer wards.

So it really was no surprise that when she died the number of people who attended her funeral filled the church and the parking lot and some of the lot next door.

The people I have just written about, do you know how tall they were? Fourteen feet tall. I say that because that is how tall the tree from a tiny mustard seed grows. So pray toward, and work toward, and speak toward, and act toward bringing into being mustard seed moments.

Do it and you may well be fourteen feet tall. Or even better, be taller than fourteen feet and still growing when finally you head toward your heavenly home,

which of course is the ultimate mustard seed moment.

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