  Are You Building a Resume or a Legacy? By Whitney Hopler "Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." - Proverbs 19:21 NIV Staring at my maternal grandmother's grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, I was struck by how inadequate the words on her tombstone were to summarize her life: "Pauline M. Dodson, His Wife, March 28 1912, January 26 2008." Beyond her birth and death dates, all her tombstone revealed to those who didn't know Nana personally was that she had been married to Grandpa. His stone gave only a bit more information — the dates of his lifetime and his military resume basics: "Lieutenant (JG), U.S. Coast Guard, World War II." The tombstones gave one story, but my memories of Nana and Grandpa presented a far different story. |
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