How would you like to be remembered?

This has been a tough one to start with and I think that I am making it more complicated than it needs to be because I start thinking of how I would want to be remembered by co workers/neighbors/family/kids and then when I stopped and realized that it should be the same for all of them shouldn’t it?  So this is my best crack at how I would like to be remembered.

     I want to be remembered as someone who knew how to love unconditionally and wasn’t afraid to show it.  As someone who loved his wife passionately to the embarrassment of my kids and adoration of my grand kids.  I want to have my kids know that no matter what mountains they may face in their life that they are loved by their dad and always have a soft place to come home to and feel his love literally wrap around them.  I want to be known as a family man who loved and placed his family above all else…I never realized until this moment what a compliment that title imbues.  I want to be known as someone who never judged people because of their faults but rather loved them for their strengths even when they couldn’t see them for themselves. 

     I want to be remembered as someone who was always growing.  Someone who constantly was learning new techniques in gardening or how to paint or in my career but as someone who was finding passion in life in one way or another.  
     I want to be remembered as someone who knew how to laugh and make other people laugh.  Not the in your face always putting on a show kind of funny but rather sees the humor in the everyday and diffuses situations and breaks down barriers with people sort of way.  I want to be remembered as someone who could let things go...that didn't hold grudges but was quick to forgive and forget both in others and himself.  I want to be remembered as being kind...again a powerful word when you stop to think about it.
     I want most of all to be remembered as a man who honored his priesthood.  As someone who KNEW the Lord and didn't doubt but moved forward in his life with confidence. I want it to be said that I loved the Lord and that people could see this because my actions in my everyday proved this love.  I want it said that I didn't make people stand in my shadow but helped push them into the light!  I guess if I were to sum it up in one statement I would want to be remembered as someone who loved and was loved in return.