st. john's lodge no 2 - The Trestleboard

Bernard R. Rash – 6/16/1976
John R. Schroeder – 6/6/1956
Charles F. Starkey – 6/1/1977
Eric D. Taylor – 6/25/2014
Leon D. Ware – 6/18/1975
Harold M. West – 6/20/1973
Dale S. Willie – 6/18/2018

What Will Matter

Some day it will all come to an end.

There will be no more sunrises, no more minutes, hours or days.

All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.

Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.

It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.

Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear.

So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to do lists will expire.

The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.

It won't matter where you came from or what side of the tracks you lived on at the end.

It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.

Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.

So what will matter?

How will the value of your days be measured?

What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built,

Not what you got, but what you gave.

What will matter is not your success, but your significance.

What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.