SEE(K)

Saunders coined, but Lennon famously said/sang, 'Life is what happens when you're making plans.' Even today I pondered what I would be remembered for, and this thought flashed through my little mind: Those who care about me most, will not remember me for who I think I am.
 
The truest you is in the spirit, emotions and actions of that child-like you. That unselfconscious, earnest, trusting and tender person that preceded the proud, self-aware and ambitious one. The person that connected to people and smiled unawares with people, before networking or money had worked its spirit into the soul.
 
So who knows that true you? Who delights in that true you? That person will be doing the 'remembering' when you're gone.
 
Two things of deep note: Jesus said unless we became like children we would not enter the kingdom of God. (Mt 18:3) That is a powerful, calibrating statement. That child trusts fully, delights in, follows... God. That was Jesus' point. Are you, like a child, in the courts and kingdom of God?
 
Secondly, God is eternal, and he breathed us forth in
his own image. (Gen 1:27) He set this 'eternity' in our hearts with intention. (Eccl 3:11) We are called to set our eyes back on him, and in Christ to come after him.
 
Jesus said we would find life by losing it to him. (Mk 8:34-38) 'Being' - or true self - is what happens when we seek God.