FIFTY REASONS I DON"T HAVE FIFtY REGRETS

FIFTY REASONS I DON”T HAVE FIFTY REGRETS

1.        I try and make each day count

2.        I try and help as many as I can along the way

3.        I give generously

4.        I don’t eat junk food even semi regularly

5.        I enjoy even my challenging kids

6.        I am grateful for little things

7.        I achieved all my life goals by thirty five

8.        As far as it depends on me I have tried to live at peace with people

9.        I listen to encouraging music

10.    I have put others first most of the time

11.    I don’t hold grudges

12.    I don’t hate anyone

13.    I can see most people’s perspective

14.    I don’t spend lavishly

15.    I haven’t held my kids back even when what they did scared me

16.    I listen to opinions I disagree with

17.    I have read broadly

18.    I have travelled some

19.    I keep improving myself

20.    I have learned to forgive myself

21.    I keep moving forward

22.    I persevere even through hard things

23.    I don’t judge too many people J

24.    I never say I have done enough good in the world

25.    I enjoy sunsets

26.    I try to see as many sunrises as possible

27.    I look for northern lights and interesting stars regularly

28.    I unwrap favorite memories over and over

29.    I try to limit the amount of times I will think about

30.    My only addiction is timmies steeped tea

31.    I don’t watch much tv

32.    I don’t listen to much news

33.    I haven’t invested money badly and lost lots

34.    I am generally happy with my life

35.    I have life long friends

36.    I stay close to nature

37.    I stay close to God

38.    I don’t overwhelm myself with useless facts

39.    I have decluttered

40.    I have let go of things I lost – except my 64 chevy station wagon that I would like back!

41.    I make new friends each year

42.    I still write personal notes and letters

43.    I give money to church

44.    I give in many ways to community

45.    I volunteer

46.    I try to make life interesting for others

47.    I compliment many people daily

48.    I challenge myself

49.    I make new goals

50.    I engage learning

 

FIFTY THINGS I HAVE DONE FOR WORK

FIFTY THINGS I HAVE DONE FOR WORK

1.        Make cleats (duct hangers) for my dad (1/2 cent each I started at six)

2.        Cleaned house for my grandma

3.        Mowed lawn

4.        Raked

5.        Picked bottles

6.        Baked baking powder biscuits (age 12)

7.        Babysat (12+)

8.        Nannied (15+)

9.        Pine Lake Camp (Salvation Army) assist cook

10.    Pine Lake Camp(Salvation Army) counsellor

11.    Pine Lake Camp (Salvation Army) waitress

12.    Red Rooster (cashier)

13.    Small town convenience store – cashier

14.    Didsbury Esso – cashier/night assist manager

15.    Glenn’s Voyageur Restaurant – waitress

16.    Caper’s Pizza – waitress

17.    North Country Inn Calgary – cook, server

18.    Denny’s Calgary McLeod Trail

19.    Whistle Stop Café – Mirror, AB – server

20.    Looking Good Greenhouse – assistant manager/worker

21.    Poppy’s Gift and Thrift

22.    Co-owned painting and cleaning company

23.    Small Chinese restaurant

24.    Educational Assistant for a pregnant teen school

25.    Addictions Counsellor

26.    Taxi Driver

27.    Marriage and Family Therapy Counsellor

28.    EAP counsellor

29.    Youth minister

30.    Minister

31.    Funeral Home Worker

32.    Sports Editor

33.    Newspaper Columnist

34.    Bashaw Grocery Store

35.    Blossoms & Blooms – delivering flowers/answering phone

36.    Melville Flower Shoppe – answering phone

37.    Non-Profit Agency Counsellor –

38.    Central Alberta Florist Greenhouse – Blackfalds, AB

39.    Majik Greenhouse – Lacombe, AB

40.    Trowlesworthy Lumber Yard – Mirror, AB

41.    Editor

42.    Ghost Writer

43.    Book Coach

44.    Author

45.    Edible Arrangments – delivery person

46.    Suicide Prevention Educator (non-paid)

47.    Faculty Assistant (unpaid)

48.    Upjohn Home Care

49.    Palliative Care aide

50.    Recreation Therapist Aide

FIFTY THINGS I LOVE

Fifty things I love (not people)
1. Sunrises
2. Sunsets
3. Good poetry
4. Northern Lights...
5. Saskatchewan
6. Writing
7. Reading
8. Education
9. Camping
10. Writing conferences
11. Movies (alone usually)
12. Memories
13. Stephen T Berg 's writing
14. The Leadership Studio at Muskoka Woods
15. Briercrest although not as much as I did
16. Oregon
17. Washington
18. Alaska
19. Israel
20. Austrailia - though I have never been
21. Sam Berg 's conversations about counselling
22. Paul Magnus 's classes or conversations
23. Echo Lake Bible Camp
24. Technology (also hate it though!)
25. Art (though I am not a critic)
25. Brennan Manning's writings
26. Chicken Cashew Mango Curry (that I make)
27. Thai Basil in Regina (best food!)
28. Formerly loved steeped tea at timmies
29. Talking to my kids about almost anything
30. Family gatherings
31. Saturday breakfast with Adam Sapelak in Regina
32. German Pancakess
33. Grandchildren
34. Horses
35. Short visits with friends
36. Great Ideas
37. Developing Ideas
38. Putting on events
39. Inscribe Christian Writers' Fellowship
40. Fellowscript Magazine and Team!
41. Marriage
42. Life Coaching
43. Book Coaching
44. Song - You're my home by Sky Terminal
45. Song - Lost Stars by Adam Levine
46. Old Hymns
47. Coffee Row
48. Old Churches
49. Cemeteries
50. Cooking for my kids and friends and random strangers...

FIFTY THINGS I LEARNED FROM OTHERS

Fifty Things I Have Learned From Others
From My Kids
1. To not give up
2. To try again (This is different than #1)...
3. To apologize about small things
4. To have fun
5. To not miss important lessons at Church
6. To bake lots of cookies and ignore how many disappear
7. Its ok to cry as much as you need till you are better
8. You don’t have to work all the time
9. Do laundry EVERY DAY
10. To be nice and help clean their rooms
11. To keep their important stuff safe for them
12. Vacations can be anywhere and don’t have to cost
13. Be with the people you are with (fully engage)
14. TV is unnecessary for survival
15. Cell phones are important communication tools
16. I don’t have to know everything
17. I am always there mom and they always need a constant
18. I am not perfect
19. I am the perfect mother for them
20. Cinnamon buns are some of the best retained memories
21. Shoes in summer are not important
22. You can never have too many stuffies
23. You will outgrow your stuffies
24. Modelling is just as important when they are adults
25. Your children are the best reason to continue to enjoy life
From My parents
26. Be hospitable
27. Make grocery money
28. Go to church
29. Take care of your kids
30. Help your neighbors
31. Bite your tongue
32. Get married
33. Try not to use credit
34. Go to funerals
35. Take your kids to funerals
36. Take care of your vehicle
37. Don’t marry the first person you fall in love with…hmmm
38. Write letters
39. Say thank you
40. Keep in contact with relatives
ELSEWHERE
41. People aren’t the problem the problem is
42. Rethink processes
43. Forgiveness in indispensable in real life
44. Grace is not limited
45. Yourself is the hardest person to forgive
46. You can wear someone else shoes
47. Know yourself – then others
48. God laughs with you, cries with you
49. God is not the author of our messes
50. God doesn’t give up on us…

FIFTY PEOPLE I MISS

FIFTY PEOPLE I MISS
(32 living - 28 deceased)
1. Marnie Threlfall - college
2. Lee Thompson - high school / church...
3. Juanita Milford - didsbury esso
4. Erin Brown - austrailia
5. Adam Sapelak - regina, Sk
6. Walter Brown - Yorkton, Sk
7. Vi Brown - Yorkton, SK
8. Donna Taylor - Yorkton, SK
9. Garf Stevenson - Whitewood, SK
10. Chris Stevenson - Whitewood, SK
11. Teresa Thrun - Melville, SK
12. Beth & Becky Nussbaum - Didsbury - College
13. Dianne Cowley - Nipawin, SK
14. Richard Cowley - Nipawin, SK
15. Dave Lokken - Nipawin, SK
16. Lorraine Lokken - Nipawin, SK
17. Marilyn Clark - Red Deer, AB
18. Alice Mansell - Red Deer, AB
19. Henry Chou - Ontario - seminary
20. Kerry Donovan - BC - seminary
21. Stella Steegstra - knew in Bashaw, AB
22. Corinne Rhodes - High School - Red Deer
23. Sherry Brown - Red Deer, AB
24. Sandra McGhee - Red Deer, AB
25. Gregg Johnson - Red Deer, AB
26. Tim Way - Edmonton, AB - Salvation Army - Pine Lake Camp
27. Carolyn & Chery-Anne Haynes - Calgary - Salvation Army - Pine Lake Camp
28. Bruce Hindmarsh - Seminary
29. R.J. Hewitt - Maple Ridge - Red Deer Salvation Army -
30. Eileen MacGregor - Sister
31. Evan Mansell - Brother
32. Wendy Taylor - Sister
33. Corinne Elliott (d) - died 2001 - friend Bashaw, AB
34. Cor Hartenberg (d) - Seminary - friend
35. Walter Kittler (d) - Mirror, AB - friend
36. Sylvia Webster (d) - Leduc, AB - mother-in-law
37. Ted Nelson (d) -
38. Linton Fletcher (d)
39. Grandpa Mansell (d)
40. Uncle Danny (d)
41. Grandma Mansell (d)
42. Grandma Weich (d)
43. Grandpa Clark (d)
44. Grandma Clark (d)
45. Dan Brown (d)
46. Dale Archer (d)
47. Brett Schlichter (d)
48. Trevor Stauffer (d)
49. Pastor Swalm (d)
50. Pastor Annett (d)

FIFTY THINGS I DID WHEN I WAS 27

FIFTY THINGS I WAS DOING WHEN I WAS 27
(Less than 27 days to my birthday – I started this to post
On the 27 days till bday – but got behind!)
...

1. Was pregnant with second child
2. Ran a youth group
3. Took youth group to rythym and news concert
4. Knew my soon to be born soon would be a drummer
(because of that concert! I had to leave)
5. Had a baby boy – Joel Thomas Dakota on June 25, 1992
6. Had my hair braided by my sister for the event
7. Missed my nephews baby shower as I was having his cousin
8. Worked at a greenhouse full time till I was two weeks overdue
9. Lived on a farm
10. Rode horses
11. Wrote poetry
12. Mowed the lawn
13. Had an under two child Hannah Grace Marie
14. Grew St. Joseph’s climbing coat roses
15. Grew Morning glories and nightscented stalks
16. Drove an two tone omega
17. Was a pastor’s wife
18. Found a wife for a friend
19. Babysat for others
20. A niece was also born that year
21. Suntanned
22. Went to Oregon
23. Attended Robert Cote’s wedding
24. Took my newborn and his sister camping
25. Went for walks
26. Spent time with friend Corinne
27. Attended a baby shower for Joel in Bashaw, AB
28. Decided I could achieve things in life even though I was a mom
29. Chose another son to come and live with us a year later
30. Enjoyed hayrides in winter with babies
31. Looked at lots of stars
32. Made new goals
33. Dreamed bigger dreams
34. Knew my kids would be very smart
35. Made baby food
36. Loved buying baby clothes
37. Roasted hot dogs at narrows
38. Used an outdoor fire pit for three months bec oven was broken
39. Made zucchini casserole over fire
40. Had early morning coffees with Walter Kittler and Jim Mackenzie
41. Went for walks and enjoyed birds
42. Carried my kicking screaming daughter a long ways when I was still pregnant
43. Shopped in small town grocery stores
44. Made a small house seem bigger
45. Wrote stories
46. Visited my grandpa
47. Enjoyed family gatherings
48. Reallized how young I was
49. Read Books
50. Planted flowers and trees at church

FIFTY INFLUENTIAL MEN

FIFTY INFLUENTIAL MEN IN MY LIFE
(mostly the good, in no particular order)
1. William Booth (founder Salvation Army)
2. Brennan Manning (writer – d)...
3. Henri Nouwen (writer – d)
4. Rich Mullins (singer – deceased)
5. Paul Magnus (seminary prof)
6. Norm Grayston (counselling colleague)
7. Evan Mansell (brother)
8. Joel Sims (son)
9. Kevin Sims (son)
10. Michael Sims (son)
11. Wade (son)
12. Larry Webster (spouse – MVBC)
13. Adam Sapelak (heart son)
14. Robert John Hewitt (minister/friend)
15. Dr. Edward Oke – MVBC – RMC – EMCC)
16. Darrel Meier ( MVBC)
17. Josh Smith (pastor – EMCC)
18. Glenn Fretz (pastor/friend)
19. Brian Archer (regional minister – EMCC - college )
20. Samuel Berg (professor)
21. Stephen Berg (poet/contemplative)
22. Nathan Harms (poet/former inscriber)
23. Bruce Hindmarsh (professor)
24. Duane Sims (former spouse)
25. Paul Sullivan (college)
26. John MacGregor (pastor)
27. Linton Fletcher (friend/elder- d)
28. Murray Brown (former judge – d)
29. Ray Bailey (Bailey’s funeral home)
30. Scott Brown (friend/Melville)
31. Garf Stevenson (camp - ELBC– EMCC)
32. Walter Brown (EMCC – ELBC)
33. Kerry Belt (MVBC – RMC – EMCC)
34. Lee Thompson (high school)
35. Joe Pelz (high school – college)
36. Dan Brown (college – d)
37. Stan Mansell (father)
38. Cam MacGregor (brother-in-law)
39. Jesse Rufus Clark (grandpa - d)
40. Leonard Mansell (grandpa – d)
41. Ken Cullen (MVBC – minister – friend)
42. Ian Allwood (heart son)
43. Rick Klippenstein (pastor – CCC)
44. Fergus Littlechief (former friend)
45. Phil Delsaut (EMCC – president)
46. Franklin Graham
47. Trevor Ennis (ELBC – Camp)
48. Bryan Norford (Fellowscript Colleague)
49. Andy Piasta (friend/priest)
50. I had someone’s name here but now I don’t remember!