My Bucket List

I decided to follow the masses into creating my bucket list. At first, I had a bit of trouble getting it started, but after reading through your entries and others online, I fear that I have too much! I did repeat some from your lists, but just think, CARPOOL! Also, who better to do these activities with than friends/family? Here goes (in no particular order):

1. Ride IN a hot air balloon
2. Eat a pizza in Italy
   
3. Be a wife and a mommy
4. Race someone with a beautiful and fast car
5. Be debt free
6. Make a remarkable impact on someone's life
7. Meet a favorite author
8. Help build a habitat for humanity house
9. Visit 10 different countries (not counting the U.S.)
10. Have a role (small or not) in a musical or movie
11. Learn something new in depth (such as photography, languages, countries, etc)
12. Learn to ballroom dance (even if its just the waltz...)
13. Go white water rafting
14. See a solar eclipse
15. Be in Time Square for New Year's
    
16. Go to a Broadway show while in New York
17. Visit 7 wonders of the world (new or old)
18. See the Northern Lights (yes some of you have this too, that just means we can carpool)
19. Go to Hawaii with one and only
20. Water ski and sailing
21. Count my blessings each day (sounds easy but..... sometimes we forget!)
22. Go on a Disney Cruise with as many family members (or friends if my family is lame) as possible! It can be the cool package to go to Walt Disney World first then cruise or vice versa!

Hope you enjoyed my bucket list...

Not a Bucket List

My Bucket list will come after my return home, I'm saving the thought for the 24 hour trip home. Tonight's post is spontaneous, and is coming in spite of the fact that I ought to be studying.

I talked to a guy named Moritz tonight along with my buddy James for an hour and a half. He's about my age, German, studying in London for the year, and traveling to North Carolina this summer to work with the Challenge camp to teach football to kids. (soccer). Such a cool guy, really seemed receptive, really was actually interested in what we had to say. Asked a lot of questions that we could answer, and really seemed to think about it. He said he had a really hard time believing that people went to hell, and in the end I told him that the beautiful thing is that God loves HIM. Uniquely, individually, him, and that if tonight he took the time to go before God honestly, and told this relational, ultimate, beautifully perfect God that he was having trouble believing, God could help him out. I told him the Bible said "if you seek, you shall find" and he could come before God as he was and help him. We pleaded with him earnestly not to put it off, and told him the realities of sin, and he seemed to really take it to heart. Long story short, he didn't accept God into his heart at Leicester Square tonight, but for the first time this semester, I am so incredibly hopeful that he will.

How good is God. He loves us. Uniquely, individually, perfectly us. We fall short. Every day, every hour even, we fail to follow his law. And even if we aren't busy breaking his law, are we really doing what we should be? Even in the off chance that we've made it through the day without breaking his law, have we loved him as we should? Can we even grasp how holy, righteous, and perfect he is? Are we even capable? It's completely blowing my mind right now that I sin all the time, I don't trust him even though he has given me everything, and yet, he loves me anyway. This God of all Gods, holier than holy, created us and loves us in spite of our imperfections.

I'm stunned.

Clint's Bucket List

In truth, my Heavenly Father has already blessed me with so many opportunities I never thought I'd have. He's given me an amazing family, great friends, and above all a wonderful Savior! Way more than I deserve to experience. "If the good Lord is willing and the creek don't rise", these are a few of the things I'd like to do before I leave this land....

• go on a mission trip to a 3rd world country (because my Father said to)
  

• street preach (and not just once....I want it to become a lifetime activity)
  

• para sailing (looks like flying without wings)
  

• have a book published (has always been a dream..haven't told many folks that)
  

• finish a cancer run (that's right I said run not walk)
  

• go to Hawaii with my sweetheart (can't wait to see the smile on her face!!!)
  

• adopt a child (or two!)
  

• jump off a cliff into the ocean (Cannonball!!!!Look out below!!!!!!)
  

• own a music venue/restaurant (The Sound Kitchen morphs)
  

• write a weekly column for newspaper/magazine (or daily....I'm not picky)
  

• become mayor of Benbrook (leave town while you have the chance)
  

• go deep sea fishing (don't worry, I'll throw 'em back!)
  

• go whitewater rafting (the perfect sport for the directionally challenged)
  

• have a real Italian meal with my sweetheart in Italy (mmmmm....meatballs...)
  

• invent something (double stuffed Oreos, the light bulb, it doesn't really matter)
  

• ride atop an elephant (I actually did this when I was really young but I'd love to do it again as an adult)

Stephanie's Bucket List

I was excited about doing this, because I actually started a list of things I wanted to do a few years ago, AND I feel really blessed because in the past year I have crossed five things off that list! I wonder what God will open the doors for me to do throughout this next year... :)

Here are some of the things I want to do before I die in no particular order...

1. Start a ministry for younger girls.
2. Be COMPLETELY free of my student debt!
3. Get married and start a family.
4. Be a part of building up the church - I don't know yet if that is being a part of building or starting a ministry with a group of people, starting my own, or even just being faithful in a certain place, but I want to help build up the body of Christ.
5. Learn more about photography/ take a photography class
6. Have a piece of my writing published
7. Go skiing/ snowboarding
8. Vacation in Tahiti
9. Go Sailing
10. Take swing, salsa, or ballroom dance lessons
11. Go to Greece
12. Go camping
13. Have a nightime picnic under the stars
14. See the Northern Lights
15. Learn to surf
16. Go to NYC during Christmas
- and while there have frozen hot chocolate from Serendipity
17. Take a cooking class
18. Do something life changing for someone - preferably anonymously

The things I crossed off this year are:
-visit London
-visit Italy
-Go on a mission trip
-Travel somewhere by myself (I didn't know if I would ever be brave enough to do it!)
-Start a Bible Study

Matts Bucket List

This was fun couldn't stop at 15
**double asterisks are sub goals or notes

1. Debt Free
**Once achieved never again
2. Go through the English Channel Tunnel
** Travel Europe
3. Skydive (need more bravery first)
4. Parasail
5. Scuba dive with my one and only
6. Ride a hot air balloon
7. Learn a new language proficiently
8. Visit every state at least once including DC
**Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico,
**Colorado, Missouri, Illinois, and California DONE
**9 out of 50 DONE
9. Bungee jump something scary
**Six Flags, or Hurricane Harbor, and similar don’t count
10. Manage my weight
**Never weight more than 250
**Very high because I weight 235 now
11. Stand in the four corners
12. Ride a Gondola in Venice
13. Witness a Total Solar Eclipse
**Closest in Kentucky on Aug 21 2017
14. Ski a double black diamond mountain slope
15. Go Zorbing
**You tube it it's awesome
16. See the Northern lights
17. Visit the Grand Canyon
18. Times Square New Years Day
19. Enter the Statue of Liberty
20. Shake hands with The President of the United States
**Current or former

The Bucket Lists

Larissa and I were recently having dinner with a dear friend of mine who owns a few horses and we talked about the possibility of going out to her house and riding horses this coming summer. Rissa hasn't ridden a horse in her adult life so I know it will be a bunch of fun for her! That got me to thinkin'! There's several things in my life that I've always wanted to do but have yet to. As my 30th birthday approaches I've started to reflect a bit on my life thus far and to set dreams and goals for my life henceforth.

So with this in mind, I thought it might be fun for everyone to make their own bucket list and post it on the blog. If you're unaware, a bucket list is basically a list of things you hope to do or accomplish before you "kick the bucket". Let's make a list of 15 things. Please create a new post to display your bucket list marked, for example, as "Clint's Bucket List". Sound fun?