If you have a groundbreaking, mouth shattering, palate pleasing recipe from your great grandmother on how to bake a beautiful sweet potato pie and you have no one following you to carry on that tradition or that recipe, then it's just sort of lost. It lived for one lifetime, and people enjoyed it for one lifetime. And all of that beautiful, delectable, delicious recipe is gone forever, right? She may have had a secret lance. She may have had a secret process that she carried on
Or sometimes I've seen people create art in the forest with leaves and sticks, but it's only temporary until either the wind blows it or those pieces decompose. I think of myself, the things I think about, the things I put out into the world as being equally ephemeral, but equally beautiful and valuable and worthy, however one defines these things. And so the way that I live my life is I want to leave. I don't care if anyone remembers my name or not
Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 5:00
I know very little about you, but I certainly know that you love to read or love to write. Ephemeral or fleeting is exactly seeking plumb where I'm hinging my convictions about and continuity, right? Take for instance, the ripple in the water as a boat passes by. The legacy, as I'm sort of stepping into this new conceptualization, this new belief about it. It's to be important, not so much in its perceivable movement or in its perceivable being or has been, right?
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
I think I think I'm more confused. So let me see if I can put some of these thoughts together. You are saying that success and legacy are immaterial and ephemeral, but there's is a desire for continuity of some sort, right? And here's where I'm confused, because I completely agree with much of what you said. There's this ricocheting effect of every human coming in contact with others
Greetings, Pastor, or if we may call you LJ. Thank you so much for creating this space and thank you so much for raising such a topic up and asking such a question. And it's beautiful. We're different, but we agree with you. For us, we're more on the spiritual side of practicing but we have been on your side of the fence, so to speak, working in the church as a Christian