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Whether Jove has many winters yet to give, or this our last Mine and yours nor scan the tables of your Babylonish seers.īetter far to bear the future, my Leuconoe, like the past, We spent every day with people that thought white people were novel, but we encouraged complete strangers by the mere act of our willingness to be there too.Ask not ('tis forbidden knowledge), what our destined term of years,

Amped up on antimalarials and stomach-protectant Dukoral, I was vaccinated against nearly everything, we flew eighteen hours (in four planes) with four children over five days and drove three hours crammed in the back of an ambulance up 6000 feet into the Great Rift Valley where we were introduced to water shortages, rice and beans, and irregular electricity. Hard to imagine that it actually came true. I checked that dream off the list, but that dream didn’t live up to its romantic notions. There was this teenage bucket list dream I had, volunteering in Africa. Do you want a cappuccino with a book every morning? Set an alarm clock. You want to save for Paris, set money aside every day. If you’ve had enough with that math program, find something else. If you plan to learn the piano, have your daughter teach you. If the Knitting Pinterest board sits untouched, time to change that. Though it’s awful hard to change some circumstances, keep moving towards occupying the everyday with the things you want to do.ĭon’t just write a bucket list, write “What am I going to do today that I WANT to do on today’s list. Learn from them, share with them and share what you know be present. The people in our neighbourhoods, our churches, our kids’ dance classes, and the lady teaching piano–these are our communities. There are seven billion people on this planet, and not everyone can own the biggest house on the block, fly their private jet, graduate medical school, mediate the middle east, have their name in lights, or travel the world, but we all can do the thing inside us that we are meant to do. You’ll overlook opportunities staring right at you. If you think you can’t do what you want to do, you won’t. But there is caring about others and caring too much.ĭo things you want to do. You were born to care, commune, and connect. You are never NOT going to care what everyone thinks-that’s a sign of a sociopathic diagnosis. Not EVERY moment is good, but this is the moment we have, so enjoy it. This is not gonna happen every moment if you have dishes to wash, again, or more than one child learning peace-making skills, or you wake up with a crick in your neck. We can bestow grace on those that need our grace, and even more challenging, extend it to ourselves.Įnjoy every moment. Perfection isn’t ours to capture, so we’ll never be mistake-absent. Where the golden apples grow.” Robert Louis Stevenson Are we living beyond regrets? Are we enjoying every moment? Are we learning not to care what others think?

We finally stop to reconsider the content of our life. Then there is that one day, when that one thing happens, where we can no longer deny what we’ve been told: that our days are numbered. We have many reminders that this is true, but given enough time, we can continue living and forget that this is our reality. We’re jolted when we’re forced inside our homes because of a pandemic. We’re jolted when we catch a glimpse of a World Vision commercial or hear of a teenager drowning or when we call an elderly friend to catch up and discover she’s passed away. We’re jolted out of complacency when we hear of a friend’s child killed in a car accident when we have a pregnancy not continue to term when our marriage explodes.

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