Don't be surprised if someone is celebrating your work 100 years from now!

Do you ever have moments when you find yourself completely and utterly amazed?

Last week I was working on some Japanese-inspired botanical pieces that I decided to create on pages from an old musical magazine I had found at an estate sale. As I was painting I saw the date on the magazine and was flabbergasted. The magazine was 110 years old!

After figuring out the math, I stopped and considered the team and how they would have created that magazine over 100 years ago! Printing was so different then—the effort they would have had to go to for each of those pages to become a reality. Their graphics looked completely different to me through that 110-year-old lens.

But what felt like a holy moment for me was that I realized Taylor and I found a dusty box full of sheet music and music magazines, in someone’s basement that we bought. This magazine might well have been disregarded but now I was using it to create a beautiful piece of art to bless someone’s home. I was co-laboring with the creators of that magazine…just a century later.

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We are not islands existing alone.

I wonder whose work you are building on today. It truly feels like a beautiful invitation to consider!

• Maybe you are a teacher and some of the techniques you use were developed by someone years and years ago and you are not making them your own.

• If you are a musician just stop and consider how many people worked on developing your instruments over the years to get it to where it preforms today.

• Engineer? Who worked out that math that you utilize every single day?

• Do you love to garden? Oh my gracious, there have been so many advances in gardening over the centuries.

What do you use every day that some worked on ahead of you where their ceiling became your floor? Take a few moments and appreciate their work's blessing to you.

And don’t miss that the work you are doing today MATTERS. Your ceiling will also be someone else’s floor. Thank you in advance for making a difference in someone else’s life. Who knows but that it will be your work someone else is celebrating 110 years from now.