Si-renity by Si Robertson

Author:Si Robertson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Howard Books

Take delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.

—P SALM 37:4 (NIV)

CHAPTER 7

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BUCKET LIST

Do you remember that movie with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman called The Bucket List? It was about two terminally ill men who shared a hospital room. One of them (Freeman) was a retired auto mechanic, while the other (Nicholson) was the billionaire owner of the hospital. They didn’t have private rooms because Nicholson’s character had instituted a cost-saving policy of no single rooms with no exceptions—even for him.

Even though the men were completely different in every way, they eventually figured out they shared one common characteristic—a lot of regret about how they had lived their lives. The auto mechanic started compiling a bucket list, which was a catalog of things he wanted to do before he died. He wanted to go skydiving, drive a race car, visit the Pyramids, see the Great Wall of China, and go on a safari in Africa. He was bitter that he didn’t have the time or money to do any of them. Freeman’s circumstances inspired the hospital owner, and he decided that they would do the things together before they died.

Hey, I was about to turn sixty years old when The Bucket List was released in 2007. After seeing the movie, Christine told me that I should come up with a bucket list of my own. “A bucket list?” I asked her. “Are you ready for me to kick the bucket?”

“No,” she said. “Everybody should have a bucket list. It’s everything you want to do before you die.”

Well, I spent the next few days pondering what things should be on my bucket list. Hey, I know I have been very blessed. I have already experienced so much in my life that I never thought I would get a chance to do. The Good Lord has blessed my family and me with so many opportunities. For a poor country boy from Louisiana, I have already experienced so much. Among the things I’ve already done:

• I drove a monster truck.

• I wrote a New York Times No. 1 bestseller.

• I recorded a country-and-western album.

• I microwaved Ivory soap.

• I saw a black panther in the wild.

• I owned a racehorse.

• I wrote a children’s book.

• I ate bacon and eggs for dinner.

• I sang at the Grand Ole Opry.

• I caught a world-record crappie.

• I wore a Scottish kilt.

• I made a bomb out of Mentos and Coca-Cola.

• I appeared as an extra in a Hollywood movie.

• I airboated across an alligator-infested swamp.

• I went bungee-jumping in Panama City Beach, Florida.

• I ran with scissors.

I think everybody should have a bucket list. For whatever reason, when you write your list on paper, it seems to motivate you to actually do the things you’ve listed. Look, the only people who fear death are those who don’t have a relationship with the Lord and those who haven’t truly lived yet. We can’t be afraid to try new things and take chances.

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