I’ve decided to pare my list down to five.
1. Attend a Samaritan Passover
2. Climb Mt. Hermon all of the way to the top!
3. Get published in print somewhere
4. Make a quilt (if I stop gadding about long enough, that is)
5. Take singing lessons
There.
On second thought, how about a list of things that I have already done, like….
1. Live in five different states, one Canadian province, and a foreign country
2. Visit Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island
3. Learn to dance the hora
4. Enjoy the arrival of 6 younger siblings (Twenty months was just too young to remember my first sis!)
5. Be outgrown by my little brothers (one down, two to go)
6. Play in a rowboat sandbox
7. Lead someone to salvation
8. Learn how to whistle
9. Attend a one-room school
10. Make yogurt with goat’s milk (it was gross!)
11. Adopt a second family
12. Organize 145 years’ worth of family letters
13. Attend a Passover Seder
14. Kill a huge flying cockroach (with much screaming!)
15. See a black bear lumbering down the road towards me (with great aplomb)
16. Learn to read Hebrew
17. Learn how to clover-leaf my tongue
18. Spend three years studying through the entire Bible in great detail
19. Fly through at least 5 airports and change address at least 4 times in 2 years
20. Take a correspondance course on writing
21. Live in a kosher home for six weeks (“Is this the meat knife??”)
22. Write 240 pages of reports about life in Israel…and counting
23. Make friends from Africa, Asia, and Europe
24.Go snorkeling in the Red Sea
25. Go camping while the ground was still frozen
26. Fly overseas by myself
27. Get lost approximately 3,000 times, all while taking the shortest and easiest possible trips
28. Serenade Indian navy cadets at the Upper Room
29. Learn more about the plants, animals, rocks, hills, and roads of Israel than I ever will know about the good old USA
30. Hear the “Messiah” sung in Jerusalem
Never mind about the phlegmatic bit: obviously God is an expert at prying stick-in-the-muds out of the mud!
So what’s on your list?
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Here is the list of things I want to accomplish in my life, if God wills.
1. Thru-hike the Appalachian Trail
2. Visit all 50 states
3. Dogsled & kayak in Alaska
4. Tour Europe to see the places I’ve read about in my WW II books.
5. Tour the pacific islands
6. Volunteer in an orphanage
7. Travel by train, plane, & ship
8. Backpack thru Scotland
9. Learn to speak German
10. Learn to ski
11. Take piano lessons
Wow your list is wonderful, I especially liked your being able to organize letters from the last 145 years, to live in a kosher home and to hear the Messiah sang in Jerusalem and to visit Israel is so awesome. You’ve done far more in your life than I have but here are the 8 things that I would love to accomplish by the age of 30. i have 2 years and a half to go…
1.To study the bible more intently than I have before, and to read it daily, not just weekly at church.
2.To be able to visit different countries in Europe.
3.To learn a foreign language.
4.To get married by the age of 30, I’m already engaged.
5.To participate in missionary trips, to go to at least 2 mission trips by the age of 30.
6.To finish the 2 year community college that I’m in, or to at least be almost done by then.
7.To bring one of my best friends to salvation and to help her heal her mind from mental illness.
8.To visit my original country of birth, which is Russia!
Here is the list of some things I’ve done….the list will probably be shorter than 30 things
1.I finished a business school by the age of 21.
2.I still speak my native Russian language and have lived in United States for 15 years now.
3.I’ve been all over the East Coast of United States and to many places in Canada.
4.Leading others to salvation.
5.I Learned to crochet when I was in my early 20s.
6.I learn to draw in an adult education class about 3 years ago, I enjoyed it immensely.
7.I’ve gone to many refreshing and interesting church retreats over the years, they are usually held in Berkshire, Mass twice a year.
8.I have tried to speak about God at my line of work, I work in retail and try to mention God to my co-workers and to some shoppers (but I try to be politically correct).
9.I have enjoyed playing many different sports during the years, some of them include softball, soccer, tennis, swimming and bicycling in spinning classes.
10.Writing to different newspapers with articles on politics and religion.
11.I enjoy spending a lot of my time on different forums on the internet including YLCF forum, yahoo forums and weight loss forums-message boards. But the most wholesome I’ve seen so far is this forum, that’s why I love it so much
12.I’ve been writing poetry since I was about 14.
13.I’ve sent 3 of my poems to different poetry contests. And I won 1 contest.
14.I’ve created my first web site Christmas 2005. I’ve had almost 2,000 hits to my site from people from all different walks of life.
15.I’ve gone to a Broadway play a few years ago, it was a remarkable theatrical experience and it was wonderful.
16.I’ve gone Christmas caroling with my church last year, and it was such a sweet and humbling experience to sing to many different people, some were from a high school, some in a nursing home, and to some we sang in the neighborhood! I really felt Jesus’ presence while we were singing.
17.One of the most rewarding things I’ve done is come to Christ and to accept the Lord as my personal savior. I was born in a Jewish family and it was hard to break away from my roots…but once I broke away from the Jewish religion and accepted Christ I was rewarded greatly by HIS everlasting love and HIS companionship and HIS wisdom.
18.Being baptized in 2003 was the most rewarding experience that I can remember.
That’s all i can think of for now. Thank you for listening.
God Bless you!
Jane.
Could you tell me a little more about the Kosher thing? That sounds so cool!
I really enjoyed reading your list and seeing how you grew in the Lord through your experiences.
Same here! I was just wanting to know about that! (The spending 6 weeks in a kosher home)I have learned to read Hebrew too and love Israel! Man, to go snorkeling in the Red Sea! Does it get better than that?
Shalom! -Yael
A couple years ago, my sister and I were students in Jerusalem. When the lease ran out on our apartment with only 6 six weeks left to go, we were invited to stay with an American Jewish family that has been living in Israel for the last thirty years or so. They’re Conservative Jewish, I believe, which means that they are serious enough to keep kosher, but open enough to invite Christians into their home. We had some wonderful, wonderful talks about God, and I feel privelege to know them!