We have completed two days of the 31 Days to live. How are you doing? I am still trying to make the most of each moment. Trying to stay on top of my goals. However, today I want to do something different. I want to include you in this blog discussion. I want to share with you a couple of the things on my list of things I want to do in my last 31 days. Also, I want to know what would you do?Here are a few things on my list. I am not sharing everything. However, during month I will share different ones as I accomplish them. Here a couple of highlights:
1) Food: One thing I want to eat during my 31 days is a good steak and baked potato. I want to wash it down with a big glass of Dr. Pepper. (Mmmmmmm)
2) Going to hang out with my grandmother. I love her. She is 94 and she is very sick with Cancer. I am hoping she will help me understand better what it means to "number your days."
3) Laugh more with the people I care about. I have a lot under this category. Game time, dates with my wife and a date with my daughter, a party with family a couple of close friends, and quality time with each of my boys.
These are just a few of the things on my list. I want to know what is on your list. click on the comments button below and let's start sharing with one another what we would do if we only had 31 days to live.
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A few things on my list-
Do random acts of kindness
Volunteer for a cause
Show my kids things they need to know and how to do them
Take more pictures with me in the photo of family and friends who are
important to me
For me; as Curly said in City Slickers- "The One Thing" is to leave my family, especially my children with the legacy or rememberance when I am gone that Dad was the best Dad we could ever have wished for.
I try to live every day as though I was going to face God tomorrow.
When I do face Him all I hope for is to hear him say, "Well Done". I guess that would just about cover everything.
Should I accomplish these two tasks my life here will have been fulfilled.
Bob Thomas
To try to reach lost family members and friends and share the love of Christ with them.
To thank my parents for the awesone job, and sacrafices that were made when raising our family, and for their Godly example.
To thank my in laws for raising their son to be such a wonderful father and husband, and for the Godly example that they set.
To reconcile any differences that I may have with anybody.
just to name a few. My list keeps growing :)
I have noticed that my husband has seized life this past week.Outside more, making time for me, doing things I like.He is coming with me to visit my son in Chas and grandson, he usually does not.He is working on spending more time with his other son...biking again.He is smiling more, more playful.That is impacting me in a big way.I am more quiet this week, journaling more, thinking of all the stuff, projects and work i am involved in...is it eternal stuff, will it matter....so I am in a different place...a soliditary place this week.
I have been wearing my bracelet all week to remind me of the challenge. I have a high stress job and I believe that my attitude has changed this week. I've been trying to look at the positive and laugh more instead of being so stressed all the time. It honestly makes a huge difference!I also went to see my grandparents yesterday and went to dinner with them. They don't live far away, I just let life get too busy. So, I stopped and spent time with them and one of my best friends that I haven't talked to in awhile! It has been a great week!!! :)
As a hospice nurse this subject is one I deal with on a every day occurance.
But I would like to spend one on one time with each of my three children. Write letters to each of them on these days that I would not be there. Tell my parents how much I appreciate the scarfices they made for me, even when I was to stubborn to see it. Apologize to those I've harmed and to give forgiveness to those who have hurt me. Pray sincerely and humbley. Janet Inkelaar
I am thoroughly enjoying the series this month. I think life if something we all take for granted. This past week, I have begun journaling again for my daughter, something I promised to do but quit after about 5 months. I also have prayed more this week about where I should be focusing. I am preparing to write 'my list' but haven't yet. Keep up the great work, Chris!
I feel so challenged to even think of things to do in my last days. I am overwhelmed and don't even know where to start. Half the time, if i truly think hard enough about it I just get emotional...but I still struggle really hard to think of a list.
Becky
I just can't say enough how much this church has re-energized my spirit. Some things on my mental list include:
1. Really and truly know what it is to "give it all up to God"... put my total trust and faith in His hands... give Him the steering wheel to my life.
2. Spend more quality time with God and be in real relationship with Him on a daily, consistent basis.
3. Carve out time in my busy day to concentrate on and be fully present in the moment with my children... to be in real relationship with them and learn more about who they really are.
4. Seek God's wisdom in trying to reconcile with my parents who are not Christ/God/Bible centered at all.
5. Talk less, listen more. Stop pointing fingers and fully own up to my own faults and shortcomings.
6. Seek God's guidance as to my next step in life.
I started out this series all ready to go! I was so excited about how it would change my life. Well, it has been tougher than I thought.
Women will totally get this and maybe learn a little as I have. I am at the age where my harmones are well, all over the place. I started to think...If I really had only 31 days to live would I "allow" myself to wallow in whatever mood my body decided to throw me in?" The answer is no. I realized that I "choose" how I will allow my emotions to be handled. Wow! That shocked me! I thought I didn't have a choice. I thought my body told me what the deal was for the day and I went with whatever mood I was in. This is HUGE for me!
Now, to be honest..it has been hard "deciding" how I will LET my mood be handled. Big lessons for me!
Oh, one of the things I would do if I only had 31 days, I would write a letter to my future grandchildren. =)
Thanks for this series! It is awesome!
I have been really enjoying the series but honestly I have been resistant to the 'homework' assignments. I made a short to do list, but i didnt think too hard about it.
1. Visit with friends to share good times.
2. Visit family and talk about Christ.
3. Watch a game at Fenway.
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6. Find a good home for Kaley.
After finishing the assignment I didnt change my daily routines. Although i did have a panic attack thinking about who would take care of Kaley, i still havent acted upon it. Which has been the truth all along. I always say I wish I had more time with friends or could visit my family more often but nothing ever changes. There is always the over demanding job, the bills, the unexpected crisis, etc.
Today at service Chris talked about expiration dates, he and all the band members had fake dates to remind us that our lives are finite. Then shortly after getting home from church I received a real expiration date. My uncle has 24 hours to live. Yes I knew he has cancer and yes the doctors had previously told him he only has a few months to live, but to hear 24 hours, that is much more real. One day. Will this experience make me take the current series and homework more seriously or will I continue to withdraw from the reminder that death is around the corner for all of us? I do know today I will go into work and try to pretend everything is okay. Tomorrow who knows.
Shortly after posting I received notice from my mom that Butch (my uncle) has died.
Ok so I haven't done everything like I should have by living these 31 days as my last. I did make my list and one thing I knew I had to do was call my grandparents who I have never been too close to anyway, it's a very long story. Let's just say I was never the favorite granddaughter to them. I knew that in order for me to get rid of the hurt and anger I have kept inside I would have to call them. It was a good conversation and I feel so much better, my grandmother is very sick and wasn't able to talk long but my Paw Paw and I talked longer than I think we ever have in 27 years. I am trying to make the most of this last week or so that we have left of this challenge. Maybe I can finish my list by then.
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