Maybe someday, I will…
1.) learn to drive
2.) have a garden where I grow all my own vegetables and herbs
3.) be able to hang my laundry on a clothesline to dry
4.) learn to sew and make my own clothes
5.) be ordained as a minister of Word and Sacrament in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
6.) own a laptop
7.) homeschool my kids, depending on how good/bad the local schools are
8.) learn Arabic, Spanish, Syriac, Aramaic, Romanian, Italian, Russian, German, Korean, and Swahili
9.) learn to knit and make this hat and this facecloth
10.) cook all of our food and just buy ingredients from the store
11.) learn to make clerical shirts that actually fit me in colors that I would actually wear and don’t look dippy
12.) get my Ph.D in Church History or a D. Min with my thesis being on the influences of Celtic Christianity on the way we evangelize and worship
13.) visit Israel, Egypt, Syria, Greece, and Turkey
14.) backpack across Europe with Jon
15.) have kids and raise them in a loving Christian home
16.) have a female cat named Freja (pronounced “Fraya”) in addition to my current feline stallions
17.) read the entire Bible and Apocrypha
18.) translate some obscure text
19.) read the works of Louisa May Alcott other than “Little Women”
20.) complete a journey through a labrynth
21.) learn to quilt and make them for our bed and for my children’s beds
22.) learn to finish furniture so that I can get it cheaply and do the finishing stuff myself
23.) write a book on spirituality that is Biblically-based but reflects my Celtic roots
24.) live in an ecologically sustainable home with at least one room with broad windows (thanks Leenie)
25.) study in Ireland for a few months or more
26.) learn to play a wind instrument (i.e. flute or recorder) or the violin
27.) be part of a chamber music group that sings music composed before 1800
28.) teach a college or seminary class on Celtic Christianity
29.) write a curriculum for the Church to use to learn to minister to sexual harassment victims
30.) write a curriculum for the Church to use to learn to minister to people with depression
31.) learn to let God take care of the details and enjoy the ride
32.) serve as a missionary in the Muslim world or in Latin America
33.) read the Psalms in Hebrew
34.) become better with HTML and PHP and CSS and make a layout that looks good
35.) serve in my local government
36.) teach my kids (and my confirmands) about good ecological stewardship of the earth that is Biblically based
37.) read the Book of Concord (don’t tell Jon!)
38.) learn to love myself for who God created me to be rather than who the world wants me to be
39.) advise a ranking member of government (I wanna be a Congressional chaplain!)
40.) learn to love others as God has loved me

(Thanks to Leenie and Sarah for the inspiration to make this list.)