Bucket List

Alright, So I have been gone for a while .... but I promise I am back!!!! Woo hoo!!

I really needed to share this: So here we go!

So, once upon a time… I told everyone to start working on a bucket list. I still think you should create a bucket list, but now I have new advice.

First, let me back track a bit. So, once upon a time… I had a bucket list. I was able to cross a couple things off this bucket list in that first year that I had it. Then, we flew to Florida, where I would be able to check off a few more items on my bucket list. But I lost the bucket list in the hotel room. I have called and reported it missing. It has broken my heart, shaken my ground, and rocked my world. I still don’t have my bucket list. But today I’m not sick about it.

Every night, I walk between 2-4 miles. Tonight, I told God that I am very upset that I don’t have my bucket list anymore. I told him that he knows I function best when I have a list no matter what the occasion (grocery shopping, weekly menus, to-do’s, and bucket listing) …..

You know what I think I heard tonight? I think he wanted to tell me that the bucket list I made, that made so much sense to me, that lead me in the right direction, that helped me stay motivated, that continuously focused me – wasn’t as important as GOD IS.

You know, thinking back to when I wrote that bucket list. I was in the lowest of the lowest part of my life. I had no hope, no direction, no idea where we were headed.   I decided if I had goals, and I knew where I wanted to go in life I would be alright. Well, the bucket list helped – but it wasn’t what pulled us through. God was.

I got caught up in the moment, and never asked God if any of my bucket list items were in his plan. Does he want me to swim with dolphins? Or would his list for me have something more like “fund a school in Africa and watch it be built?”

I’m going to make a new bucket list. One that God guides me to write. I am not saying that this will work out his master plan for you or anything like that… I really think it’s important to know what you would like to do in your short life you have – but don’t add things that may be more for you and less for others.