Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 20 of our Wisdom-Trek and thank you for joining me.  
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom.
Today we look at The Echoes of Life.
We are recording our podcast from our studio at Home2 in Charlotte, North Carolina, with another busy workload today with many projects demanding time.  Sometimes we feel like the proverbial plate spinner in the circus trying to keep all the plates spinning without them falling and breaking.  However, we do strive to balance this out towards the end of day by taking a break and having a healthy and nourishing dinner.
Paula and I work with our various clients together, but we each have our specific areas we work on.  Paula usually focuses more of her time in the afternoons and evenings.  While she is finishing up her work, it allows me to break at about 6pm in the evening to prepare dinner for us.  I love to cook, and we both prefer to eat at home where we can control the cost, quality, and quantity of what we eat.  It works very well for our situation.
As we invite you into our lives each day, it is our hope that you will consider us your friend, guide, and mentor on this trek of life. Life’s trails are not always smooth and can be rather difficult, but the key is to draw strength from each other and to seek joy in each situation.
Today on our Wisdom-Trek, let’s visualize ourselves on a narrow path with a wall of stone on our right side and a steep cliff on our left. Across the vast valley is another ridge of mountains.  As with life on many days, our path today is steep and is strewn with rocks of all sizes.  It certainly makes the trek today slow and difficult.  As we are moving slowly along as a team, we hear someone from the group of trekkers shouts out, “I’m scared!” And, within a few seconds, we hear a voice coming back to us from across the valley “I’m scared!” Someone else calls out, “Me too!” Andc we hear back, "Me too!"
Realizing that this will not be good for our moral, our trek, or our safety, I call out, “You can do it!” And, from across the valley, the same words come back to us. Once more I holler out, “You are doing great! You are a champion!” And, the reassuring words are repeated back from the other mountain.  With these reassuring words, peace comes to the team, and we successfully navigate this dangerous part of our trail.
Such as it is with our trek of life. What we project out comes booming back to us as an echo.  This is very similar to the principles of planting and harvesting which we looked at on day 15.  You will harvest what you plant but much more than you plant.
It is so important that we are always aware that what we say and do does have a significant impact on the lives of others, and as it is returned to us like an echo will impact us as well.
Zig Ziglar said it this way,  "Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you."
 
What we say can give nourishment and strength as Proverbs 16:24 explains that "Kind words are like honey — sweet to the soul and healthy for the body."
Our words can also:
Be a source of wisdom, "Wise words are like deep waters; wisdom flows from the wise like a bubbling brook," Proverbs 18:4.
Satisfy like a good meal, "Wise words satisfy like a good meal; the right words bring satisfaction," Proverbs 18:20.
Are more valuable the any riches, "Wise words are more valuable than much gold and many rubies," Proverbs 20:15.
As we consider the words that we speak to others and even to ourselves, let us reflect on what Mother Teresa said.  
Our actions can also echo back to us.  How we treat others, will ultimately be how we are treated. At times we may be able to mask our words. We may have even mastered how we speak to others, but…"Your words may hide your thoughts,