pentimenti: changed; painted over.

in january 2008, my pastor delivered a sermon in which he challenged all of us to make a list of 100 life goals. they didn't have to be realistic or rational, the gist was that we would all dream big and take risks with our lives. he also emphasized not setting 100 goals now, and leaving room for the goals we come up with as we get older. i decided to share the list here....

1. learn/be functional in at least 5 foreign languages
2. be a JEOPARDY contestant
3. vist at least 25 countries
4. go on at least 25 mission trips
5. get married and have children
6. take my children to Disney World
7. take my children on a mission trip
8. run a 5K
9. ride a "scary" rollercoaster
10. enter a ballroom dance competition
11. write a book
12. write a best-seller
13. speak in front of over 5,000 people
14. work for a Christian camp full-time
15. put my children through college
16. grow old with my husband
17. go on a mission trip/pilgrimage with my husband
18. go on a cruise/vacation with my best friends
19. read the entire Bible
20. live in a foreign country for at least a year
21. celebrate a wedding anniversary in Africa
22. adopt a child
23. take my grandchildren on vacation
24. have a good conversation with a famous person
25. go backstage at a show/play/concert
26. sit front row at a show/play/concert
27. choreograph a dance to be performed in front of an audience
28. go on vacation with my sister and her family
29. own a house
30. own a beach house
31. donate 10% of my salary to charity, in addition to tithing
32. own a car
33. learn how to swim
34. leanr how to ride a bike
35. ride a motorcycle
36. learn sign language
37. visit a recording studio
38. be on a movie set
39. sing in front of an audience
40. write for a famous publication
41. make a documentary
42. teach a class
43. be in a play/musical
44. fly a plane
45. weigh less than 150 lbs. =)
46. look good in a bikini =)
47. celebrate a New Year's in a foreign country
48. take my mom on vacation
49. get a PhD or at least 2 Masters
50. go to Taize
51. establish an NPO/NGO
52. estbalish a scholarship
53. be at Times Sq. for New Year's
54. watch the tree lightning live in NYC
55. go to a World Series game
56. be a cool mom
57. go rock-climing
58. go white-water rafting in higher class rapids
59. learn how to ski
60. travel all 50 states by the age of 50

some of these have been accomplished in one sense or another... more to come as i figure out more goals!