Bucket List

This is not complete, but it's a start.

Bucket List

1. Learn Sign Language
2. Learn to play the piano
3. Work in a coffee shop
4. Sell some of my photographs
5. Learn something for fun/take a class (baking, photography, interior design)
6. Live in a decent sized city
7. Live overseas
8. Get married
9. Become a foster parent
10. Adopt a child
11. Write and teach my own curriculum
12. Lead a small group
13. Memorize a book of the Bible
14. See more of Europe
15. Take a river cruise in Europe
16. Visit each of the Hawaiian Islands
17. Travel to and/or take a mission trip to:
1. Africa
2. Australia
3. Mainland Asia
4. Middle East/Mediterranean
5. Europe (again)
18. Get out of debt (and stay out!)
19. Learn calligraphy
20. Host a foreign exchange student
21. Get published

25 in 25 Update

Well, tomorrow is Oct 1st. So here's my update on my 25 in 25. I have 5 months till my birthday to accomplish what I can on my list.

1. Grow Closer to God
2. Learn sign language (Bought The Joy of Signing)
3. Find a full time job
4. Read a non-fiction book a month

1. August: Choosing to SEE by Mary Beth Chapman (Done)
2. September: 48 Days to the Work You Love (Done)
3. October: Ordering Your Private World
4. November: Boundaries
5. December:
6. January:
7. February:

1. Write some devotionals
2. Lead a small group
3. Visit a castle
4. Go on a mission trip
5. Go on a date
6. Pay off one of my loans
7. Get on track with a budget
8. Get my first apartment
9. Buy a car
10. Get health insurance
11. Finish my “Legacy Drawer” (Want to do in Oct)
12. Finish Philippines Journal (want to Finish in Oct)
13. Get recipes in order (want to do by the end of December)
14. Write devotionals
15. Work on OT Curriculum
16. Work on NT Curriculum
17. Put Scripture together with my photos (Have started, but need to find more verses for specific photos)
18. Make at least three collage frames with the Scripture/verses
19. Finish reading all of Tracie Peterson’s books (have read almost a dozen so far. Many more to go...)
20. Put together a dream book of things I want to do (aka Bucket List) (See a post coming soon!)
21. Make a list of habits I want to start and make a plan to start them (working on this now)

1. Monday Meaderings, 25 in 25, spiritual growth, etc

9/27/10 Monday Meanderings

Bible Study: Beth Moore’s 90 Day Study on Jesus.

Memory Verse: James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Family Encouragement:

Wednesday Ppt for Dad (Done for Tues practice and run on Wed night)

Clean up some of the kitchen/bathroom for mom

Help plan Menu

Personal Goals:

Make my room livable

Read September’s book, 48 Days To The Work You Love (Finished 9/30)

New Habit of the Month:

Begin to blog, starting with Monday Meanderings

October’s habit: Keep a daily to do list

Must Do:

Apt with Lisa

Bring Screwtape Letters to Katie

Pick out October’s book (Ordering Your Private World)

Zone:

Clean out in front of dresser

Begin working on my closet

Menu: TBA

Fun things:

1. Going to Saratoga with Jeff
2. Library
3. C2

3 Things I’m Thankful For:

1. Friendships
2. Rest
3. My parents

25 in 25

1. Grow Closer to God
2. Learn sign language
3. Find a full time job
4. Read a non-fiction book a month
1. August: Choosing to SEE by Mary Beth Chapman
2. September: 48 Days to the Work You Love
5. Write some devotionals
6. Lead a small group
7. Visit a castle
8. Go on a mission trip
9. Go on a date
10. Pay off one of my loans
11. Get on track with a budget
12. Get my first apartment
13. Buy a car
14. Get health insurance
15. Finish my “Legacy Drawer”
16. Finish Philippines Journal
17. Get recipes in order
18. Write devotionals
19. Work on OT Curriculum
20. Work on NT Curriculum
21. Put Scripture together with my photos
22. Make at least three collage frames with the Scripture/verses
23. Finish reading all of Tracie Peterson’s books
24. Put together a dream book of things I want to do (aka Bucket List)
25. Make a list of habits I want to start and make a plan to start them
1. Monday Meaderings, 25 in 25, spiritual growth, etc

Now as a disclaimer, I started this a few weeks ago, nearly halfway through my 25th year of life. So, since I don't have the full 12 months, I don't expect to get everything done. However, I would consider this to be a success if I accomplished at least 10 things on this list before my birthday. :-) Here's to making dreams become a reality.

Life has changed!

Well, as you can see, I haven’t blogged in nearly two years. My life has changed a lot since then. My last blog two years ago was my support letter for Ireland. Well, I didn’t and I’m not currently planning on going to Ireland as a missionary. I’m not sure where I will be going in terms of missions. Maybe this week will hold some answers as I talk with Lisa from GEM. But I would like to revive this blog and try to keep up with it more. My first goal is to put up my Monday Meanderings (thanks Holly!). Since the death of several friends about a month ago, I have tried to be a bit more proactive about my life. I don’t want to wake up several years from now wondering where my life went and how I got to where I am. I want to be able to look back and see definite things that I have done and learned. I want to be able to follow the thread of my life and know exactly where all those years went. So to do that, I have been inspired by a few friends to write out goals for my life. Some things will go on a “bucket list”, other things will be things that I want to do that year (like my 25 in 25 list - 25 things I want to try to accomplish while I’m 25, then 26 things next year, etc.) Other things will be part of my weekly goals; hence, the Monday Meanderings. So here’s to the start of reaching some of my goals.

-cll

Monday Meanderings

Monday Meanderings

Bible Study:

Beth Moore’s 90 Day Study on Jesus. I started this back when I went to Israel, and only got through about a week. So I’d like to pick it up again and work through it.

Memory Verse:

Proverbs 31:26

Family Encouragement:

Wednesday Ppt for Dad

Clean up some of the kitchen/bathroom for mom

Personal Goals:

Work on my 25 in 25 list. Try to mark off one thing by the end of the week.

Philippines Journal

Read September’s book, 48 Days To The Work You Love

New Habit of the Month:

Begin to blog, starting with Monday Meanderings

Must Do:

Call Dan on Wednesday

Talk with Lisa on Thursday

Set up a Phone date with Rebecca T.

Zone:

Bedroom - unpack from my summer working at camp

Menu:

In our family, we don’t always plan what meal is going to be what day. Instead we simply a list of meals that we can make in a given week. There are usually 4-5 meals and the rest of the time we eat leftovers.

Pizza

Chicken, broccoli and stuffing casserole

Spagetti

Ravioli

Orange Chicken with rice

Other things this week:

Zucchini bread

Dump cake

Fun things:

1. New books to read
2. Edit some photos

3 Things I’m Thankful For:

1. Going to Beth Moore Simulcast with Elaine over the weekend
2. Time to relax at home (including fun reading)
3. C2 group

Reaching The Emerald Isle, December 2008

December 6, 2008
Dear friends,
“For as heaven is higher than earth, so My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:9
God’s plan is certainly greater than ours. Some of you may remember that a year ago, I was looking to serve in Germany as a resident assistant with Black Forest Academy. For reasons unknown to me, I was turned down. But God has since opened a bigger door to me and shown me a bigger plan than I could ever have dreamed of. During the summer, two missionaries contacted me: one in Slovakia and one in Ireland. Though I was interested in both ministries, the opportunities in Ireland were similar to what I had sought to do in Germany. Since choosing to pursue the opportunity to minister in Ireland, I have seen more and more how God has placed the various ministries I will be involved in on my heart even while I was just starting college. I will now have a chance to add experience to the education I received at Liberty University.
On November 12, 2008, I was appointed as a short-term missionary to Ireland with Greater Europe Mission (GEM). Right now, I am planning on being in Ireland for one year. I will be working in a variety of areas including working with GEM’s missionary kids, known as GEM-K’s, the Irish youth, as well as doing some administrative work for GEM’s team of missionaries in Ireland. All of these job areas will begin to get clearer the closer I get to the field. I have no real picture of what I’ll be doing day to day yet, other than to do whatever will further God’s kingdom as it involves the Irish people.
I have set a personal goal to be in Dublin, Ireland by the middle of July. To reach that goal I have to raise full support before I am able to leave. Although it is still awaiting approval, I have been given an approximation of $5,415 for Ministry Launching Funds (getting to Ireland, getting settled wherever I will be living, and whatever needs I have during my first month in Ireland. Then my monthly support is estimated at $2,024. This all adds up to just under $30,000 that I will have to raise. I will need to have a portion of this money already in my account as well as faith promises that people will continue to give to support me each month while I am on the field.
I cannot meet this goal by myself. I need individuals who will be willing to partner in ministry with me in two ways: prayer and finances. Though I will have more prayer requests as I get closer to leaving, for now I ask that you pray that I balance my time between my own spiritual growth and getting ready for the field, my job, and my classes for my Master of Religious Education. To partner with me financially, I have enclosed a Ministry Response Card that shares the different ways that you can support me. When giving, please include my account number (#25800) on a separate piece of paper to comply with the IRS tax laws.
May God richly bless you!
Immanuel,
Charity Lane

Christmas Greetings from GEM

Merry Christmas!
I wanted to pass on Christmas greetings not only from myself, but also from Greater Europe Mission.

Growing, Growing, Growing

Last night, I put in a “new” CD while I was washing dishes and cleaning up my kitchen. It was a mix that I had made in April of 2004 at the end of my Freshman year of college. One of the songs that came on was, “Jesus, Draw Me Ever Nearer”. That song became my theme song for my mission trip to Minsk, Belarus. As I sang along with the song, I thought about how much I have grown over the last 4 years. That song is still a theme song for my life, but in a different way. My prayer at the time was that my trip would be a blessing to the people I would be working with as well as a growing experience for me. The trip to Belarus was my first experience overseas and my first real mission trip. I was scared but I had already seen God work miracles in just providing the money for the trip.
Today, the song still reminds me of my mission trip, but even more than that, my Christian life. My prayer isn’t as much that my journey would bring a blessing, but that I would become more life Christ as a result of my journey and that I would love Him even more at the end of my life than I do now.

“Jesus, Draw Me Ever Nearer”

Music by Keith Getty; Words by Margaret Becker
Copyright © 2002 Thankyou Music

Jesus draw me ever nearer
As I labour through the storm.
You have called me to this passage,
and I'll follow, though I'm worn.

May this journey bring a blessing,
May I rise on wings of faith;
And at the end of my heart's testing,
With Your likeness let me wake.

Jesus guide me through the tempest;
Keep my spirit staid and sure.
When the midnight meets the morning,
Let me love You even more.

Let the treasures of the trial
Form within me as I go -
And at the end of this long passage,
Let me leave them at Your throne.

Welcome to Hosanna's Journey

After months of having a blog and not using it, I am going back into the blogging world with this new blog!
I invite you to join me on this journey of life, Hosanna's Journey.
Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote in The Brother's Karamazov, "It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."
Hosanna essentially means "save us", yet it is also used as a term of praise to God. Thus, this blog is a picture of my journey in my relationship with Jesus Christ, my Savior and my King. Will you join me?