{"id":1193,"date":"2014-02-11T11:19:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T11:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2014-02-11T03:48:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T03:48:05","slug":"what-a-father-leaves-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/what-a-father-leaves-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Father Leaves Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legacy is defined by what I leave behind. For the purposes of this post, what I leave behind as a father. A friend told a few weeks back that he could see my legacy through my work (writing, engagements, etc.). Funny how you sometimes don’t think about those types of things when you’re in the midst. It’s still vitally important, regardless.<\/p>\n

My friend also recognized that all people have a legacy. He even believes more world problems would be solved if more understood the implications of their legacy. I agree and way too many don’t even consider it.<\/p>\n

I want to leave the following behind for my kids:<\/p>\n

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  1. A sense that I understand the “fierce urgency of now.” The idea that now matters, problems matter, the fight matters.<\/li>\n
  2. Love until it hurts. Much of life will be measured by this.<\/li>\n
  3. There’s nothing wrong with making a mistake or failing. Go ahead and risk being laughed at.<\/li>\n
  4. Find out what God made you to do. This is destiny and it’s worth the pursuit.<\/li>\n
  5. People matter and they deserve your respect.<\/li>\n
  6. Position yourself for good luck.<\/li>\n
  7. Never let the child in you die.<\/li>\n
  8. I love their mother, in my words and my actions.<\/li>\n
  9. You must always speak up when evil seeks to silence.<\/li>\n
  10. Mindfulness opens the door to loving God.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m sure there are more things I want them catch, and not catch. The list represents the lens I see through today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Legacy is defined by what I leave behind. For the purposes of this post, what I leave behind as a father. A friend told a few weeks back that he could see my legacy through my work (writing, engagements, etc.). Funny how you sometimes don’t think about those types of things when you’re in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,54,82,7],"tags":[128,1514,823,180,86,417,213,220,75,369,333,1513],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning","category-life-perspectives","category-relationships","category-wellbeing","tag-choices","tag-dads","tag-epic-living","tag-eric-pennington","tag-family","tag-fatherhood","tag-fathers","tag-god","tag-life-choices","tag-parenting","tag-parents","tag-what-a-father-leaves-behind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}