My Aspirations this side of Heaven:
Travel to Greece with Jake … and Meg and Bryce (trip number 2?)
Girls trip to New York
Take a private airplane ride somewhere
Parasail
Speak to over 1,000 people at one time
Take my children out of the country on vacation at least twice by the time they graduate high school
Create yearly traditions for my family (summer camping trip etc)
Publish a book
Surprise Jake with a trip of a life time
Live in a different country
Get another tattoo – I already know what it would be!
Be able to pay at least half of my children’s education
Travel to Israel/Ephesus etc.
Have a meaningful talk about God with someone very famous
Witness a modern-day miracle
Paint a canvas using various medias and have it turn out REALLY cool (and Jake like it)
Teach my kids that ‘stuff’ doesn’t matter (and for them to really ‘get it’ at a young age)
Live below our means throughout our life
Know scripture
Visit Rwanda again and see the changes
Have real relationships with my nieces and nephews
Skydive (no joke! I’d love this) Candy’s 25th birthday, right!?!?
Save someone’s life with my organs (this, of course, would be the last on my list!)
Be on the red carpet somewhere in a fancy dress
Watch my parents grow old happy and healthy as ever
Visit a leper colony
Ride an elephant or camel
Fill my home with pictures I’ve take from all over the world
Speak Spanish fluently
Stay in a cabin in the Alps with Jake
Win free shoes
FULLY own a house (no mortgage!)
Speak at a George Fox chapel
I found it really difficult to make this list. Some of these things I may NEVER check off. For an obsessively productive person, it made me uncomfortable. So I must accept that things I don’t accomplish aren’t failures. Of course, this list isn’t set in stone either.
What’s on your list?