I'm doing 43 things
two words
23 months ago
“Redeem this.”
bonsoleil's Life List
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1. Stop procrastinating.
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2. Make prayer my priority.
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3. Never get angry again.
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4. Practice a spiritual discipline everyday.
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5. Fully control my tongue.
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6. live with no boundaries between the sacred and the secular
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7. Every day, fast from something specific: a critical spirit, gossip, sloth, etc.
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8. Replace every grudge with a blessing.
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9. Make a list of friends, and actively cultivate each friendship.
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10. Improve someone else's life everyday.
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11. Share a special time with my son every day.
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12. Prepare one delicious meal everyday.
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13. Teach my son Spanish.
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14. Really take care of myself.
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15. Drink more water.
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16. Legitimately exercise every day.
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17. cultivate unassailable poise
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18. Be as feminine as I can be.
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19. Overcome my fear of heights.
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20. Find a job that lets me work with people, uses my brain, and benefits others.
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21. Create a garden that sustains my family and my friends in need.
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22. Have a family vacation every year that includes everyone I love.
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23. Cuss rarely and only when it will have high rhetorical impact.
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24. Make organic soap and candles to sell at a farmers' market.
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25. Visit Ushuaia.
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26. Live in France or the UK for a summer.
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27. Do something every week to make my home more beautiful.
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28. Live green.
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29. Be a much better pet owner.
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30. 'cleansweep' my life up to 100% (http://betterme.org/cleansweep.html)
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31. Get my financial house in order.
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32. Own the truth.
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33. Be a much better daughter.
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34. live in the moment
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35. Become a (happy) gluten-free vegan.
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36. Keep in touch.
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37. Atone for past wrongs. Accept God's forgiveness for the rest.
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38. Get over my first love.
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39. Live with abandon!
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40. Be prepared to die.
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41. Let it go.
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42. Go on a missions trip.
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43. Dance.
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Recent entries
Learn to live with regret
23 months ago
From anotherpilgrim.wordpress.com:
Regret is one of the strongest emotions that seems to drive me. Regret invariably brings with it the questions of the “If only†nature (If only I had done such and such, or acted in this and this way). Regret leads to many other negatives like worry, despair, etc. I’m tempted to ponder on the list of things I regret and write them here, but that would serve no purpose. I need to ponder on dealing with regret in a Biblical manner.
And I’m hard pressed to find examples of people who have dealt with regret in the Bible. The only Biblical way I know of to deal with regret is to remind myself that God’s raw material for most of His work is the negatives in life. He seems to specialize in bringing good out of evil. This gives me hope that in all things, God does work together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.
The real struggle then is to trust God to do the redeeming work, to leave his hands all my past, to accept that my actions have and will continue to have concequences but that they are all part of God’s good plan.
This is a small, faint glimmer of hope. But where would I be without it?
Notes from a kindred spirit
23 months ago
Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. Set God-sized goals. Pursue God-ordained passions. Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention. Keep asking questions. Keep making mistakes. Keep seeking God. Stop pointing out problems and become part of the solution. Stop repeating the past and start creating the future. Stop playing it safe and start taking risks. Expand your horizons. Accumulate experiences. Enjoy the journey. Find every excuse you can to celebrate everything you can. Live like today is the first day and the last day of your life. Don’t let what’s wrong with you keep you from worshiping what’s right with God. Burn sinful bridges. Blaze a new trail. Criticize by creating. Worry less about what people think and more about what God thinks. Don’t try to be who you’re not. Be yourself. Laugh at yourself. Quit holding out. Quit holding back. Quit running away. And remember: If God is for us, who can be against us?
-Mark Batterson
