The "After Bucket List"

This morning I was thinking about the movie “The Bucket List”. I didn’t see the movie, but I know from the previews that a bucket list is a record of all the things you want to be sure to do before you kick the bucket. This is a cool idea, and I want to start working on mine, right after I finish reading “1,000 Places to See Before You Die”. I should probably hold off on “1,000 Ways to Decorate with Fabric” and first get a copy of “100 Ways to Motivate Yourself”. But I digress. What I was thinking about the bucket list concept is that we as Christians sometimes have an “After Bucket List". We make a list, in our heads anyway, of all the things we want to do when we get to heaven. Now, I get that our questions and desires will be surpassed by everything that we will experience with/in/through God that we can’t even begin to imagine. Even so, I don’t think God would have given us some of the biblical descriptions of heaven He does if He didn’t want us to longingly use our imagination.

Some things on my list:

• Fly


• Go to other places in the universe


• See my grandparents, relatives, and friends who have already died


• Talk to biblical saints. High on the list:
  Deborah, Priscilla, Mary, Sarah, David, Daniel, Paul, Luke, John, Peter and the angels—Michael and Gabriel(note: I love the idea that I could talk to all of the above in perfect conversation for as long as we want…because the ‘not enough time’ factor just won’t be…a factor!)


• Check out the "living creatures" (not trying to be sacrilegious here-I mean, come on, all those eyes?)


• Ask the triune God- “Why”:
  The big stuff: flood, circumcision, covenant, temple
  The hard stuff: fully man/fully God, sacrifice, resurrection, suffering, pain…what were you doing during ________ in my life?

Do any of these sound like something you’ve said in your head? I bet you have an “After Bucket” list too. Please share!