Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast Monday Morning Moments with John O'Leary.

I record these each week so that you and I can begin these days and these weeks in awe and on fire with a burst of inspiration.

Question for you as we kick off this week's episode. How do you want to be remembered?

It's paradoxical that answering a question about death can be so wildly important to living a more vibrant life.

Perhaps even more surprising, though, is realizing the very thing that is assured to all of us is also rarely considered by most of us.

And yet, my friends, it turns out that while we may indeed share equally in the

profound gift of this day, we also share in the certainty that tomorrow is promised to none of us.

So here we go again. If tomorrow does not come, how do you want those who knew you best to remember you?

How do you want to be remembered?

Just weeks before his own death, Martin Luther King, Jr. asked his congregation to consider this question, how do you want to be remembered?

He acknowledged that the world pressures individuals to strive

to be first, to endeavor to be great, to be seen as being truly important. King challenged his

congregation to embrace this notion, not to run from it. It was, he suggested, the proper instinct.

And he went on to implore them to not give up on the need for being great and important and first.

With his voice rising, though, he implored them to strive to be first in love, first in moral excellence, first in generosity.

Those who seek to become greatest among us must become servants, which he shared was good news

for all of us, because every one of us, it turns out, can serve.

King then shared prophetically that every now and then he thought about his own death,

his own funeral, and what others might say about him.

And then he told his congregation exactly what he wanted.

This is the quote from just six or so weeks before he ultimately was murdered this was the sermon

that he delivered to his congregation when i meet my day i don't want a long funeral and if you get

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