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What does your pawprint say about you?

4/18/2012

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“Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ.”
Philippians 1:27a

It’s been so long since I have written anything.  The week leading to Easter I posted nearly every day so took a bit of a break last week. I didn’t intentionally mean not to write for so long, it just happened that way.

I discovered today that Hamish with his muddy paws has been jumping up on the sofa in the front room.  He is sort of allowed up on the chair in the family room (as I had a sore back and couldn’t chase him off, sadly the consequence of this is that he feels this is his chair now!)  So I think this is why he has now started with the sofa.  I have never caught him up on the sofa but he has left the evidence behind – literally his paw prints are all over it.

I started thinking about the ‘evidence’ I (and for the purpose of this post we) leave behind – is it good or bad?  Or do we only think about the good and not the bad?

Is our paw prints in someone else’s lives, evidence of a positive mark on them and to others that might witness it?

Or in a situation is it purposeful and helpful or is it all over the place and muddy with someone else having to clean up or help heal wounds where we might have scratched even unintentionally?

What we do and say to others really does matter and we make an imprint.  But what kind of imprints are we leaving behind, what does it say about ourselves?  People who I don’t even remember talking to or having very little interaction, years later someone else has said to me ‘I was talking with “Jane” who remembers you.’ 

If a disagreement happens between you and someone else, what do you think that person’s friend who may never have met you, opinion of you might be?  

There are so many verses about life witnessing, what our attitude should be, loving and living in peace with one another.  I don’t mean we make it our aim to please man (Galatians 1:10) but we have to be aware 24/7 that we are Christ’s ambassadors.
(2 Corinthians 5:20)

May we leave our paw print on other’s lives, but let it be clean, non hurtful, and brings a smile to their face when they think of us.  Not for our pride or building ourselves up, but that they saw Jesus shining through.

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