There's a Hole in the Bucket, Dear Henry.

I may be a little behind on the Bucket List Craze... For a little while, I thought it might be sacrilegious to have playful goals other than to Love God and Love People (Luke 10:27). However, upon further review, I believe I can do all things to God's glory (Colossians 3:23). I'll start with these things:

1) Visit all 50 states in the US

2) Learn to ballroom dance, salsa dance, and swing dance.

3) See the Rockefeller Christmas tree in New York

4) Ride the light rail in Charlotte

5) Backpack across Europe and share the gospel

6) Learn a foreign language fluently

7) Take my children to a Disney fireworks show

8) Memorize an entire book of the Bible

9) Read the entire Chronicles of Narnia

10) Spend a year or more in overseas missions

11) Watch Providence choir perform at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center

12) Run a half marathon

13) Learn to cook an entire Thanksgiving meal from scratch, like my mom can!

14) Learn to play Bridge

15) Learn to play Penuckle

16) Make a legit piece of pottery

17) Go to graduate school

18) Refinish a piece of furniture

19) Own a dog and name him Leviticus

20) Own a bonsai tree

21) Buy a rundown house and fix it up to live in

22) See a broadway play

23) Learn to snowboard

“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desire not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, we are like ignorant children who want to continue making mud pies in a slum because we cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a vacation at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” - CS Lewis