Not on the Bucket List

Bucket lists are the big thing to do these days. A list of things you hope to accomplish in the summer, before you turn 30, before you die, etc. People seem to write bucket lists for everything. I wonder where the term came from?

Bucket list	:
	A list of things to do before you die. Comes from the term "kicked the bucket".

Bucket List:

A list of things you want to do before you die. I believe the term comes from a Rob Reiner movie called "The Bucket List" in which 2 terminally ill men (played by Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson) go on a road trip to do the things they wanted to do before they died (kicked the bucket)...or it could be that the term pre-dated the movie (?) and that was the reason they called the movie what they did.

Source: (urbandictionary.com)

I'm not big on bucket lists. I do tend to write out a list of ideas for fun things to do in the summer with the kids, but don't really consider it a 'bucket list'. Maybe part of my non-interest is the fact that for most of the last 13 years of our marriage (which is our whole marriage), I haven't had any idea what I would even be doing in the next year, never mind making plans for the next 10 years. I have spent the last 10 years hoping and praying for a baby and not dreaming about abstact life. I always think that I'll be happy just to make it through the week and not make long term plans. I think the other problem is that bucket lists tend to be filled with things to do.

ie: - hike the Andes mountains, climb Machuu Picuu, go on an overnight trip to San Fransisco just to see the bridge, go on a overnight trip to New York, See the view from the top of the Empire State building.

Wait a second ..... those are all things that we have done. Things that we have done in the normal course of our life. Things that I would have never dreamed of doing, never have once written on a bucket list of things I was going to do because never would I imagine doing such crazy things. And there in is part of the problem, our normal life is so crazy nuts that why would I want to write of list of even crazier things to add to that list??

The other problem is that I don't think of things that I would like to 'do' in the next ten years, but rather things I would like to be.

ie: more patient, have kids who love God and are serving Him, Raise gentlemen, teach my girl to respect herself.

I have  a hard time making a list of things that include visits to far away countries, and extreme sports. I have no doubt that I may end up doing some of those things ... they just won't be planned.

So that leads me to the events of today. Something I guess that I could have at some point written on a bucket list. (Maybe I should just keep a list of all the crazy things that Ihave ended up doing) This item though was not planned and again was something that I would never had written on a list. Never believing that I was the type of person that would do something so crazy. And yet not crazy at all.

Are you dying to know what I did today??

I went to a protest. One complete with yelling and signs and radical people thinking that if they just shouted louder their voice would not only be listened to, but obeyed. (Come to think of it, that's what I do with my kids, I shout louder at them expecting that because it is a yell that I will be obeyed.... Hmm something to think about.)

The Alberta government is in debate right now even over a new Education Act. Most of the Act is well worded and to be commened. And I can't even imagine the stress that our elected govenment officials are under on a day by day bases as they try to do things that will be helpful for the whole country or province.

The problem with the new Education Act though is the one section where they add the fact that all schools and all teaching must come under the Alberta Human Rights Act. By reading this act you can clearly see that it would mean that we are to teach equality among all people, and non-discrimination for all. Including teaching our children that 'alternate' sex*al lifestyles are okay, and that all religions are acceptable. You can see where the problems come then for Christian families who teach love for all people, but yet also teach that some of their lifestyle choices are a sin.

I hesitate to support a Education Act that could handcuff us into teaching things that go against our Christian beliefs. And wheather this govenment is intending to enforce it or not, it opens the door for governments in the futue to enforce things in a way that could be very scary.

So I stood today in downtown Edmonton, with thousands of others, who are just hopeing our voices will be heard and that the govenment with keep the Human rights act out of the Education act.