Printing and distribution requires ( one-time or annual ) licensing fee. This poem (LIVE YOUR DASH) is free to download for recitation purposes. Listen to it here.Linda’s inspirations have been featured in thousands of books, major publications, and tv and radio! Linda’s book, "The Dash" has sold more than one million copies. I think “When It’s All Been Said and Done” is a beautiful song to meditate on after reading this devotional. “How deeply intimate and far-reaching is your love! How enduring and inclusive it is! How endless … this extravagant love pours into them until they are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:18-19) Show us each day how to contribute, live, serve, and show others. Prayer: Generous Gift Giver, thank You for our “dash,” that very narrow, little line between our birthday and death day. I wonder if the brilliance and delight of Mozart’s music will be heard in heaven. So, how are you doing your dash? What are you doing with this in-between, very short time? What’s in your dash? Are you wasting it? Living it? Cherishing it? Overindulging it? Nourishing it? Regretting it? Hiding from it? Criticizing it? Sharing it? Investing it in others? It’s filling that space with a life dedicated to God and His kingdom. For your fleeting life is but a warm breath of air that is visible in the cold only for a moment and then vanishes.” (James 4:14) It’s realizing that everything we do during our “dash” must count for eternity. It’s knowing that you don’t have a clue what tomorrow may bring. And by faith, he still speaks, even though he is dead.” (Hebrews 11:4)ĭid the Name above all other names, Jesus, live His dash by intentionally giving glory to His Father? Does His dash endure?ĭoing our dash is so much than living every day to the fullest (or making the most of everyday) and being happy. Yes.ĭid Ruth, a Gentile, by leaving her home and moving to a foreign land and culture to support her mother-in-law Naomi, live her dash? Did Abel’s dash endure? The Bible says he “offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. But is it?ĭoes a full -term baby who dies within seven hours of birth have a dash? Does a dad who suffers from the ravages of pancreatic cancer, but leaves his children with a legacy of love for Jesus have a dash? Does a mom, whose successful financial investments permit her to buy anything she wants yet whose ego is on the throne of her heart, have a dash? Yes. The carved -on tombstone dash is sometimes little, long, short, or curved. This little horizontal line floats in the middle of a line, text, or numbers, and indicates a pause or a range. She writes that each of us will be remembered by two notable dates: our birthdate and death date, separated by a dash ( -) in between, the time we live on earth. It compelled me to think about my own dash. But he said what mattered most of all was the dash between the years. He noted first came the date of the birth and spoke the following date with tears. He referred to the dates on the tombstone from the beginning to the end. That devotional stirred up in me a “blast from the past” poem, The Dash by Linda Ellis. I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend. Caesar, on the other hand, is just another ruthless dictator with the adopted familial name of Roman emperors. Mozart, the most gifted composer of all time, lives on. But the most significant difference between them is their trophy, their contribution, the good that lives on. Their similarity: both are gone forever, forever absent from sight. The other is long -lived (100 BC -44 BC) and is buried in a granite-engraved shrine. One is short -lived (1756 -1791) and buried in an unmarked grave. He contrasts the life of Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Amadeus Theophilus Mozart with Julius Caesar. Chuck Swindoll, a favorite pastor/writer of mine, wrote a devotional a few weeks ago entitled Trophies.
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