When I was 12, I played baseball – first base. I really enjoyed it but my career came to a close one afternoon when a fast grounder came right down the first base line. It was coming so fast I had to field it behind the first base bag. You guessed it, it hit the bag and popped up and hit me in the right eye. I really don’t remember what happened next. I remember regaining my senses in the dugout and hearing these words, “That’s gonna leave a mark.” It did – along with astigmatism I still suffer with today.
I have the opportunity to speak to a group of college students today at noon. One of the things I want to relate to them is appropriate for us to think about today as well.
Do you want to leave a mark on the world? At the end of your life, do you want your eulogy to include, “the world is a better place because of . . . (insert your name)?”
If so, here is something for you to think about today. Maybe instead for thinking “I want to leave my mark on the world,” maybe the better aspiration would be, “I want to allow God to leave a mark on the world through me.”
The question I have been asking myself over the last week is “whose mark am I trying to leave?”
Leave a mark today!
Clay in the Hands 
So true, so true! Thanks for the daily reminder of God’s plan for us in this life through HIS timing and will for our lives. I hope that I am bendable and breakable enough to allow Him to make many marks through me.