Christian Bucket List

Here's what I want you to do. I am sure you know what a bucket list is. Perhaps you have seen the movie starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. I have never actually compose a bucket list, but I have set some bucket list style goals for myself such as visiting all 50 states. Hawaii was my last one in 2005. I think it would be a good idea for you and I to compose a bucket list that has a Christian theme to it. I challenge you to start out with five things. Here's mine.

1. Visit the Holy Land (I can hardly wait)
2. Go on ten mission trips (2 down, 8 to go)
3. Mentor a child from preschool all the way through college. (In progress)
4. Write and publish a Christian song (12 written, none published)
5. Read every book written by C.S. Lewis (I have read one. There are many left.)

It is a good idea to have goals and dreams. We have to be careful thought that we do not become so caught up in completing our bucket lists that we forget about the day to day business of being a devoted disciple. Our opportunities to serve often times just pop up in front of us. We must respond to them, even if it means delaying something that is on our bucket list.

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Highways

I find it interesting to come across a highway number down here that is the same as a highway number up in our neck of the woods. Yesterday, we spent some time on Highway 281, which is the same U.S. highway that goes through Jamestown and crosses Highway 2 at Churches Ferry. I-35 splits into I-35 W and I-35 E as it passes through Ft. Worth and Dallas, just as it does in the Twin Cities. Many years ago in North Carolina, I was on U. S. 52, which runs from Portal SE across America, sometimes disappearing for hundreds of miles, swallowed up by highways that get more respect. On the way down here we crossed U. S. 30, which is known as the Lincoln Highway out east because it passes through Gettysburg and Northern Illinois. I don’t know who devised the U.S. highway system, but they made it interesting.

The Bush Gravesite

We parked on the west side of the Bush library in College Station, TX, the home of Texas A&M. Then we walked around to the east side of the library to this beautiful pond. The grave site is through the trees on the other side of the pond. Ruth looking across the pond toward the gate and path to the grave site. Next to the library stood this statue of these horses jumping over a wall. The wall was an actual section of the Berlin Wall that came down during Bush’s term. Bush’s grave in center. Barbara’s is on the right. Their daughter Robin is buried to the left out of the picture. The grounds are large and beautiful. It was a picturesque half mile walk from the car to the grave site. We pretty much had the place to ourselves except for a kid on an electric skateboard.

President's Graves

On this trip with David we are going to visit the graves of five Presidents. One of the greatest, George Washington at Mount Vernon. One of the worst, James Buchanan at Lancaster, PA. Three in the middle. Woodrow Wilson at the National Cathedral in Washington. John Kennedy and Howard Taft at Arlington Cemetary in Virginia. The two most impressive Presidential graves I have been to are Lincoln's in Springfield, IL, and Grant's in New York City. I have been to 17 of the 39 Presidential graves. Most of them are very humble. many are located in regular cemetaries. Their grave stones are less remarkable than many others in the same cemetary. I found this to be true of Buchanan's in Lancaster and Tyler's in Richmond. Many are buried at their Presidential libraries, such as Hoover and Truman. Some are buried at their homes, such as Washington, Jefferson, and FDR. I think Lin...

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