Today is All Saints Sunday, an occasion when we remember with gratitude those Christians who have transferred from the Church Militant (that is, this world) to the Church Triumphant (that is, heaven). We are especially mindful of those who have died in the past year.

On such an occasion it is only natural that we consider the fact that one day we will transfer from this world to the next. What will those who know us best say about us when we are gone? Whatever our age may be, how do we evaluate our own lives? If you could write your own epitaph, what would it be?

Some would write frivolous things, of course. The late Lewis Grizzard, humorist, author, and great lover of the Georgia Bulldogs and golf, wanted these words etched on his tombstone: “I once shot par.” He wanted to be cremated a…