What's on your Bucket List Doctor?

 

Have you found joy in your life?
Has your Life brought joy to others?


Simple questions yet difficult to truthfully answer by some....can you truthfully say you had done this in you life as doctor, a healer or just simply a person.  The bucket list should not only revolve on your self but also in the universe. Medscape MD had an article about this and its a good read, enjoy.




How to create a Bucket List

Constructing a bucket list could improve your satisfaction with  your life. The research is clear “Miller says. The happiest people wake up every day to short term and long term goals that involve taking risks, connecting with others, and persistence.” Set specific, challenging objectives that move you beyond your comfort zone. “Property-set goals provide a road map for our lives, and we end up being proactive instead of reactive,” she notes. “We are also optimistic because we are always looking forward, not behind.”

Medscape asked doctors whether that had a bucket list, and if so, to share their entries. Many offered both medical-related and personal aims. Using their responses, Medscpae built a suggested bucket list for physicians. Let it inspire your own catalog of dreams.

                Be the Athlete you were meant to be

                Do a life saving Work in a third world country

                Write a Bestseller , TV Script or a Blog

                Say “ I am going to Change the World” –and mean it

                Learn to fly a plane or navigate a boat

                Visit a Foreign Exotic Island

                Party, Party, Party

                Fight for the Medical Profession

                 Indulge your Intellectual Curiosity and you love for learning

                 Start an Organization or Clinic to Help Multitudes

                 Find your Professional or Familial Origins

                 Work as a Locum Tenens

                 Search for a cure

                 Learn a new Language

                 Raise the Nation’s Fitness level

                 Take your talents to the MAX

                 Spread you Medical experience through teaching

                 Chuck the Rat Race and the Nonsense; head for the Simple Life

                 Always seize the day

                 Thank the people who have made a difference in your life 

as for me, i would enrich my faith and live the life how my creator wants me to be....

Counted worthy?

Luke 21:36

(36) Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man."

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Opened my email this morning and this article came out from the Berean's daily email message. We often times forget our priorities in life, what we are here for in this world that we aspire for worldly and material things in life. In this manner, our attitudes, relationships, our life's testimony does not coincide with what God wants for us to do. And Yet, we dream of someday we will go to heaven. The question is, are we worthy to stand before the Son of Man and face Him, are we worthy to enjoy God's grace and glory, are we worthy to be in HIS holy presence?

Time to back-up, reflect on ourselves, on what we have been doing...

This a good article to read and reflect on :)

"In Luke 21:36, our Savior provides us with the two "tickets" we need—watching (careful, vigilant attention to overcoming our nature) and praying always—to be accounted worthy to escape the troubles at the close of this age and to enter the Kingdom of God. These two activities are pillars that support the foundation on which our Christian lives rest during these end times.
How important are these two pillars? Exactly what is Christ instructing us to do as we encounter the end of an age?

In Luke 21:36, when Christ says, "Watch," He is calling for us to scrutinize our lives in order to change them. We are not just to note the problems we see but to overcome them. How important is it to overcome? If God mentioning something twice establishes it (Genesis 41:32), how significant is a subject when He mentions it fifteen times? Not fifteen times throughout the whole Bible but in just one book! And not in just any book, but a book of special significance to us, one about the end time—Revelation!

In this end-time message, Christ says seven times, "I know your works" (Revelation 2:2, 9, 13, 19; 3:1, 8, 15). What are works? They are simply the results of our efforts in overcoming, both the failures and successes. Jesus is saying, "I know the level of your overcoming." Then, for each church—whether era, group, or attitude—He comments on that effort. Overcoming is highlighted another seven times (Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21), as Christ ends each of His critiques with a promise that begins, "To him who overcomes. . . ." As an exclamation point, Christ warns us seven times, a number signifying completeness, to heed what He says to all these churches (Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22).

Finally, in Revelation 21:7, Christ addresses overcoming a fifteenth time. He makes a promise to those who successfully overcome: "He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son."

Revelation shows us that "Job One" for a Christian is overcoming, especially for someone living at the end time. This is the message in Luke 21:36 also: We have to overcome to be with Him in God's Kingdom. Salvation itself hinges on our cooperation with Him in overcoming (Matthew 25:30).

The parable of the ten virgins (Matthew 25:1-13) demonstrates the importance of overcoming. The difference between the wise and foolish virgins is their supplies of oil. While water represents the power of God's Holy Spirit to cleanse, oil represents its power to work, to do good. Thus, the difference between the virgins is their good works ("I know your works"), how much they overcame their selfish human natures by acting in love toward God and man.
Both groups had oil, but the foolish virgins did not have enough for the unexpectedly long delay (Luke 21:34-35). When the cry went out, their lamps were still burning but sputtering and about to go out. They were not prepared for the long haul. They had not continued to overcome. They were not enduring to the end. Their oil—their good works, their overcoming—proved insufficient for the task. In this one point, they failed, and what a foolish failure it was!

Emphasizing the importance of Luke 21:36 and watching, Christ makes a specific promise to those living at the end who are watching, that is, successfully overcoming: "Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them" (Luke 12:37).
Conversely, considering the implications of John 17:3, Jesus gives a chilling judgment to the virgins who fail to overcome: "I do not know you" (Matthew 25:12)."

How many other things are we missing as we rush through life?"

‎"In Washington DC , at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, a man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

After about four minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds, and then he hurried on to meet his schedule.

About four minutes later, the violinist received his first dollar. A woman threw money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.

At six minutes, a young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.

At ten minutes, a three-year old boy stopped, but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head the whole time. This action was repeated by several other children, but every parent - without exception - forced their children to move on quickly.

At forty-five minutes: The musician played continuously. Only six people stopped and listened for a short while. About twenty gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.

After one hour:
He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed and no one applauded. There was no recognition at all.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before, Joshua Bell sold-out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100 each to sit and listen to him play the same music.

This is a true story. Joshua Bell, playing incognito in the D.C. Metro Station, was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities.



This experiment raised several questions:

In a common-place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?

If so, do we stop to appreciate it?

Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:

If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made…

How many other things are we missing as we rush through life?"