40 before 40 – well not quite 40
I’m in my 40th year. At least that’s how my great grandma would have said it (she lived to be 101 years old or in her terms – she was in her 102nd year). She always said that that was how the Chinese said how old they are (I don’t know if that’s true but as a kid, you didn’t question great grandma). I think it was because she was proud of how old she was. When she fell and broke her hip, the medic was trying to take her pulse but couldn’t because she wouldn’t stop urging him to guess how old she was. Ok, I digress.
Anyway, I came across a blog where a guy was taking about his “40 before 40″ list – it’s like a bucket list (things you want to do before you “kick the bucket”) however these are the things you want to do before turning 40. Then he says he’ll have a 50 before 50 list and so on. This got me thinking about what I want to do before I turn 40. So I started to write my list and it was difficult for me as I wanted to put things I knew were feasible to complete before 40 but also realized that I didn’t have much time left either (I think most people make this list when they have more than 12 months to complete them). Ok, so here’s the list I’ve come up with so far:
- Eat Ethiopian food again (at least once)
- Influence one more person directly to follow Christ
- To write a piece of code or software that is so useful, it gets ripped off
- Influencing one more person to go into full time missions
- Teach my son a positive character trait by example
- Make my wife feel that tingle like when we first dated (at least once)
- Excite a co-worker about being a part of what God is doing in Europe
- Understand Islam and those that follow Islam more
- Get into a snowball fight (and win?)
- Make a viral video (but not be the subject of a viral video by mistake)
Can you help me come up with more? If you were to write a “10 before 10″, “30 before 30″ or “60 before 60″ (etc), what would you put on it?
PS – We just celebrated 4 years of being on the mission field!!!