I'm not sure how to prioritize my list because so much depends on the phases my children are in. I know that I'm serving the Lord, by serving them. I was struck the other day by the awesome implications of procreating. Our making these three, eventually makes more and more descendants, and more importantly than the number, the way we parent them affects how they parent their own children, and on and on and on.... I want to incorporate more of God's hero's into our days.
Having said all that:
- Read the Bible from beginning to end. I wonder how I've gone this long as a Christian believing in the holiness of a book I haven't completely read.
- I would love to master storytelling. It is both the most desirable and plausible "trade" to me right now.
- Write again. The family blogs are what I write now. I take it seriously and enjoy expressing myself that way. This is related to storytelling, but I'd also like to try the essay and screenplay.
- Get into really good shape. I've never been really healthy: diet, strength and stamina. I'm afraid if I don't do it in the next ten years, preferably sooner, then I never will. I don't wanna be someone who Brad has to take care of, hobbling around. Sometimes you see older people in great shape, jogging, but they didn't get started when they turned 60 after sitting their whole lives.
- Teaching ladies' classes. This is a combination of goals: taking linguistics and speech classes, and of course, studying scripture.
- Take writing classes.
- Take an acting class.
- Sit in a flower garden I've helped grow.
- Work in some way for cancer research: raising money, PR, helping survivors, family members, etc
- Help find missing children
The book making, the origami, crafty things like that don't interest me anymore. I was never very crafty anyway. I will be interested in how many (or few) of these things will be checked off 30 years from now and what a new list will look like then.
