Hero or Villan?

I was listening to a sermon by Donald Miller yesterday and he talked about our story. He asked how do you want your story to read?

We all want to be the Hero. None of us want to be the villan. How do the choices you make on a daily basis reflect how you want to be perceived? I know in my life I think of myself as the hero, which really is not who the real heroes are. When you look at stories about people the heroes are those who sacrifice and don’t think of them as heroes. The heroes do whatever it takes and are always looking to help others.

Most of my life I would say I look like the villan. Not on purpose, I am by no means a jerk. But when I look at the decisions I make and my attitudes towards some people I look way more like a villan than any hero.

What is would be the story people would tell about you if you were gone today? What story would they tell about you? One of my friends likes to read obituaries and we talked one time about what we would want our obituaries to read. He said he didn’t want it to read that we loved football or Michigan. To myself I thought what would I want mine to read? I have thought long and hard about this question and have tried to prioritize my life accordingly.

So what is your story now? What do you want it to be? Start taking time to figure out how you want it to read and go do it.