Built Quietly

Note: You’ll notice shorter posts. I’m challenging myself to say more with less.

A few years ago, at my grandfather’s funeral, my uncle read a quote that has stayed with me ever since.

I liked it so much that I had it memorialized on a small plaque that now sits in my office.

Funerals have a strange way of clarifying things.

They force you to pause and ask a question most of us avoid:

What would be said about me if my life ended today?

I was a proud grandson to hear that quote read at his funeral, because it reflected the kind of man he was: steady, principled, and rooted in integrity.

Not perfect, but consistent in the ways that mattered.

Character Is Built Quietly

Integrity isn’t formed when the storm arrives.

It’s practiced long before anyone is watching.

And when the day comes that others gather to remember us, what they say won’t be shaped by what we claimed to value, but by how we lived.

What a legacy it would be to leave behind words like those spoken that day.

My prayer for us is that we may all live in such a way that the people who love us most could say the same.

Don’t settle. Be relentless.

— Hunter