Hello, welcome back for season two of the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris

Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you with tips and strategies to help you build stronger

relationships, deepen your faith, and just get the most out of your life. Thank you for

joining. Let's get started. Welcome back to the program. Let's jump right in with our topic today.

We will be talking about bucket lists, and by now,

2020, just about everybody knows what that means. But you might be surprised to learn that it is a

fairly recent term. Now, to be clear, the idea of kicking the bucket as a representation of dying,

that's very old. That goes back to the late

1700s. So that's something that's been used for a very long time. But it was only about 15 years ago,

around 2005, that a man named Justin Zackham wrote a screenplay for a movie called The Bucket List.

He first apparently coined this idea of listing some things that you would like to accomplish,

creating some purpose in your life toward things you want to do before you kick the bucket.

The movie was released in 2007.

It starred two older men, Jack Nicholson, and Morgan Freeman, as they enter that last stage of their life, and they just want to make sure they get some things done before they go.

I like talking about this.

You know, it's really a conversation about death, but most of those conversations aren't enjoyable.

It is important to look at the scripture and be reminded that death is an inevitability for

everyone, that most of us do not know in any capacity when that will happen,

and that time between now and then is precious, and we have to keep working for the Lord and

building and striving for something. That's all very important. But talking about passing and

dying isn't exactly an encouraging topic. So I really favor this

positive approach to death. It says, okay, we know that's coming. The question is, what do you

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