Graduation season is upon us. This is a pivotal time in life–all the commencement speeches, everyone urging you on to your next step, asking what your plans are and what you will do.

The thing is, what we do is ever changing. Depending on the season of life, the education you get, the promotion(s) you receive, whether you get married and/or have children, these all factor into what you will do. That’s why when I read what Dallas Willard said, “The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity”, it makes a significant impact and makes me pause to consider what he means. While what we do changes, who we are becoming is always in effect. Every aspect of life has the potential to change who we are. We are always growing and becoming. It’s up to us to decide what we want to become. 

What we do makes a difference in our lives and in the lives of those around us. What we do lasts a moment, maybe a season, but what we become while doing those things lasts a lifetime, an eternal lifetime.

Go and do your thing today, and as you do, go and be One Dawning Light, becoming all you are meant to become and shining on others to impact their lives, too.

2 Corinthians 3:18 MSG And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.