What’s On Your Bucket List?
I chuckled at our 10-year-old granddaughter’s comment after Ron had captured this photo of her in Central Park. “Okay, I did it” Emmi exclaimed. “Scaring pigeons in Central Park was on my bucket list!” Happily, the pigeons cooperated with our granddaughter’s goal!
Bucket List is defined by Merriam Webster as a list of things that one has not done before but wants to do before dying. The term resurged in 2007 with a movie by the same name starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, two men who developed an unlikely friendship during their dying days. The movie’s plot elaborated on ways the two terminally ill men collaborated to accomplish their “bucket list” goals.
I’d like to think I will live every day as if it were my last on earth, embracing the gift of the present. That’s a noble ideal, a great reminder there is no guarantee of tomorrow. Yet, I, like most people, view mortality in a far-off future tense.
Emmi’s comment started me thinking about my sparsely developed bucket list. The trip Ron and I took with her could be viewed as a “bucket list” trip. When each of our grandkids were born, I began saving for a special trip Ron and I could make with them. We’ve come to call it our G’Pa/G’Ma Adventure.
Because they were closer in age, we combined the Adventure for our three older grandkids, spending a week visiting in Williamsburg, Virginia, and Washington, D. C. Our August 2021 adventure with Emmi included three days each in New York City and Washington, D. C.
Thinking about Emmi’s bucket list as well as my own transitioned into thinking about what might be considered a ‘bucket list’ desire of the Apostle Paul.
And I continually long to know the wonders of Jesus and to experience the overflowing power of his resurrection working in me. I will be one with him in his sufferings and become like him in his death. (Philippians 3:10 TPT)
Wow!
“To know the wonders of Jesus”
“to experience the overflowing power of his resurrection working in me”
“to be one with Jesus in his sufferings and become like him in his
death”
What a bucket list is that?!
How about you? Have you given any thought about what’s on your ‘bucket
list?’
