Bucket List.

In 2007, Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson starred in THE BUCKET LIST, a film about two old men with cancer who decide to travel the world together, scratching items off their bucket list. The film made the term “bucket list” famous.

What if you don’t complete your list?  Is that a fail?  No. 

Dreams give your life HOPE.

You must aim high if you are to achieve anything in life.

EVERY GREAT ACHIEVEMENT IS PRECEDED BY A GREAT DREAM. 

If you don’t dream it, you will never achieve it. 

But as you sift your dreams, you will set some aside.  Some dreams cost too much time, energy, or money.  Some are clearly not God’s will for you. So you let those go.  Because the dreams that ARE God’s will for you are going to require A LOT OF WORK!

Great achievements require both DREAMS and HARD WORK.

I last saw Uncle Bill about a week before his death.  He was still talking about “when I get that PhD.”  He would not release that dream—and it gave him hope to the end.  And your grandfather, a man of 10,000 hobbies, never got around to building a dugout canoe.  It was too expensive and unwieldy, an albatross of a project, and he was too practical to commit to it.  Somewhere along the way, he made the adult choice to let that dream go in favor of others.

DREAM BIG!  But accept the adult reality that you will only have enough time, energy, or money to check off some of the items on your bucket list. 

Your dreams SHOULD outpace your bucket list—because dreams fill you with hope.  You need dreams.

“When his breath leaves him, he returns to the ground. On that day, his plans die” Psalm 146:4.

I want to have many dreams, big dreams. No matter how much I accomplish, I want to always have new dreams out in front of me.  When I kick the bucket, there will be some blanks on my bucket list (meeting my great-grandchildren, for example)—and that is good.

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