Goal for an epitaph
Nov 07
I just finished Mark Batterson’s Wild Goose Chase. I highly recommended it. Here is an excerpt that states what I would love to have said about me when I am gone.
I’ve been inspired by a group of early-twentieth-century missionaries who became known as “one-way missionaries” because they packed all their earthly belongings into coffins and purchased one-way tickets when they departed for the mission field. They knew they’d never return home. The story is told of one such missionary named A.W. Milne who felt called to a tribe of headhunters in the New Hebrides. All the other missionaries to this tribe had been martyred, but that didn’t keep Milne from chasing the Wild Goose. He lived among the tribe for thirty-five years and never returned home. When the tribe buried him, they wrote the following epitaph on his tombstone: “When he came there was no light. When he left there was no darkness.” (Page 149)
What an epitaph! May we all strive to be a light that pushes back darkness.
