Sharing the bucket list and fighting through the mountain.

Ok, So today started off fairly sour... Woke up around the time I should be GETTING to work. Someone told me it was the Festival of Sleep today, but I don't think that's one of my paid vacations. Frantic morning, but a stop to check the email gave me my next "Daily Challenge." I was to share 5 things on my bucket list.

Great. There are so many things I want to do before I die, how to I pick just five??? I suppose it wasn't really a question about the TOP 5, but still, which to share with the general public???

So here they are: Kiss my husband on a gondola in Venice, Own a house free and clear, See the Northern Lights, Ride the Maid of the Mist, Visit the cliffs of Ireland.

Those are the five I'm making public. I suppose my quest to compound each daily challenge should include 5 more things tomorrow, but I may give myself a pass on this one. If I made a list of 5 things every day, it's quite possible I would have more than I can do in a lifetime by February.

So...

Daily Challenge

1) 10 Reps - DONE

2) Share 5 items on the bucket list - DONE

On another note, we paid off another debt today. Again, early. Take that, LIFE. I think about what we went through, and I see what others are going through at this very moment and there is no comparison of any sort. Each of us fights our own 'flavor' of battle. Some are sweet, and some are sour. We are all warriors, and at some point, we will fight the worst battle of our lives. For some its just starting, others have already gone through it, but until the end of our days, we will have no idea which battle was 'the big one.'

I'm not living in fear of it any more. Was this whole thing our "Big One?" Or, is there something lurking around the corner that will try to knock us down again. If it happens, it happens. I'm confident that I have been blessed with the kind of family and friends that will allow us to fight through it. I refuse to go around the mountain. We've got to climb it, or bust through the center.

If you constantly live in fear of the possibilities that life could either hand you or throw at you, how do you live at all? Before anything can happen in your life, it has to go through HIS hands, and HE will not give you more than you can handle.

That is what I believe, and that is how I'm aiming to live my life from now on.

Until tomorrow...