I Am Secure Underneath The Protecting Shadow Of God's Wings And His Strong Right Arm. (Psalm 63:7-8)

Excerpt from Zig Ziglar's book - Staying Up, Up, Up in a down, down world, daily hope for the daily grind.

A parable told by Dr. Dale E. Turner titled "The Lamplighter"

Sir Harry Lauder, the Scottish humorist and singer, loved to tell about an old lamplighter in the village where he lived as a boy. Each evening as dusk came, the old man would make his rounds with his ladder and his light. He would put the ladder against the lamppost, climb up and light the lamp, step back down, pick up the ladder, and proceed to the next lamp.
"After a while," said Sir Harry, "he would be down the street and out of sight. But I could always tell which way he had gone from the lamps he had lighted and the glow he left behind."
Life's highest tribute would be to live in such a way as to deserve the words, "I could always tell which way he went by the light he left behind."
Like the lamplighter, each one of us leaves a trail wherever we go. Our responsibility - and surely our objective - is to leave a trail we would be willing for our sons and daughters to follow and, in the process, make our parents proud of the trail they left for us. Leave a good trail, and not only will your life be good, but so will the lives of those who follow.