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Bucket List

Bucket List

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Bucket List 2Do you have a bucket list — a list of things you want to do before you die?

I checked riding in a hot air balloon off my list over a year ago.

People have talked about bucket lists for years. However, the expression became more popular after 2007’s The Bucket List movie starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.

The two men in the movie met when they became hospital roommates. Doctors told both they were dying. They had very different backgrounds and personalities. Yet, they began a worldwide adventure together. As they completed each activity on their bucket list, they marked it off.

In one of my favorite scenes from that movie, Morgan Freeman urges Jack Nicholson to find his joy.

Have you found your joy?

Do you know what gives your life purpose?

Our bucket lists may differ. Our circumstances may change. Our need for joy remains the same.

Always be joyful. Always keep on praying. No matter what happens, always be thankful, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 TLB).

What’s on your bucket list?

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Full of Hot Air

Full of Hot Air

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Full of Hot AirLook inside a hot air balloon. What do you see? Nothing.

The balloon is full of hot air.

The air keeps the balloon going. We hear sound as the burner keeps filling the balloon with air. However, we see nothing.

When people talk a lot but say nothing important, we say they are full of hot air.

They talk foolishness. Like the noise of the air going into the balloon, we might also say they talk to hear their heads roar.

Such people can be fun for a while, but they do us no good if we want to learn. If we desire intelligent conversation, we look for someone else.

What about us?

How often are we full of hot air?

As Abraham Lincoln said, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

If we have nothing useful to add to a serious conversation, perhaps we should keep quiet.

“Entirely out of place is obscene, silly, and vulgar talk; but instead, let there be thanksgiving” (Ephesians 5:4 NRSV).

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