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Keep adding to your bucket!

You may have heard about this before, but just in case, here's a review. In 2007 Hollywood produced the movie, The Bucket List, which was all at once humorous and insightful. Complete strangers asked themselves if they had accomplished all they wanted to in life before it was too late. They decided they needed a list of things to do that they had never gotten around to doing. This whole concept became very popular for many of us!

Now that we are on the way to reinventing our lives exactly the way we want, we encourage you to start a list of your own. It can be serious, silly, or simple. It might be something you've done before but not in a very long time. Or it might be daring and adventurous (safety first though!). These might seem ridiculous to family and friends. But all that counts is this list is real and important to you--no one else. While you are thinking, let's have some fun.  

Top 9 FSM Bucket Gems

1. Dress up and go out on a Wednesday afternoon for no particular reason.
2. Pick pumpkins at a local family farm. 
3. Paint a piece of furniture poppy pink (try chalk paint, it's easy!)
4. Put on some dance music when it's too quiet.
5. Send yourself flowers.
6. Find two other single-again friends and take a class together.
7. Sleep in the middle of the bed.
8. Eat dessert first before a meal.
9. Save up and buy a beautiful gemstone ring on Valentine's Day.

There are a million more things you can do. Keep thinking and you could create categories of bucket lists for yourself: a Bucket List for. . . home, career, health, travel, kids, budget, adventure, etc etc. You've got the idea. Keep the momentum going! 

Tip of the Day

Speaking of lists we need to get going, a very important one not to skip would be a journal-type list (that means you start it and then keep it going!) Although this one is private and confidential, you'll see it's necessary and meaningful to our lives. 

How many of us wish we could be closer to having a relationship with God? Maybe we have not ever asked the Lord into our lives. Or maybe we have asked Him, but then never continued the journey with Him.

So we need a relationship bucket list as a starting point. This would be a continuous journal entry to add items daily, or weekly, or when ever you need to speak to Him. Here's three items to get started

1. If I haven't already, I need Jesus in my life. Just ask Him.

2. I need a Christian Bible to find out what God wants for me. 

3. We have all sinned, so now is the time to ask Jesus for forgiveness.

For "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved" (Romans 10:13 NLT).

"If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved" (Romans 10:9 NLT).