Will You Make A Mark? "You have to make a difference to leave a mark." Me

     When you leave, die, move on, will you be missed?  Have you made a big enough of a mark to be missed?  What's the point of living if you aren't going to try to make a difference, make a mark, do something worth while?
      Look at NFL football player Tom Brady who is a quarterback for the New England Patriots.  He has led his team to win three super bowls in four years creating a dynasty. He is arguably the best quarterback to ever play the game. Do you think he will ever be forgotten when he stops playing football, or if he dies? And William Shakespeare who died in 1616. No one forgot him when he died. Shakespeare was an amazing writer. He didn't spend his life waiting for greatness to come to him. If either Shakespeare or Tom Brady had waited for greatness to come to them, they wouldn't be so well known. 
     Tom Brokaw, once a television journalist for NBC, said, "It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." It's a lot easier to make money than to make a difference? I think so. Almost anyone can get a good job, get good at the job, and make a lot of money, but not everyone can make as much of a difference as Mother Theresa did.
     Two time lottery winner Evelyn Adams hit rock bottom and now lives in a trailer. After winning the lottery, he felt like he was on top of the world with $5.4 million dollars. "Winning the lottery isn't always what it's cracked up to be." How can that happen? Maybe if Adams had earned the money himself, he would have been more careful with it and not squandered it. The prodigal son did the very same thing. His father gave him money and wasted it all with his "friends" and than he was very popular, but when his money ran out, he just went back to a nobody. His popularity lasted for as long as his money lasted. 
     When you make a difference, do something honorable, amazing, shocking, you will leave a mark. The prodigal son, did he make a difference in the city where he spent all his money? Or what about Evelyn Adams? If you said that name, I'm sure people wouldn't know who you were talking about. You have to make a difference to leave a mark.