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101 Things You Should Do Before Going to Heaven -Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition
One day your soul will leave your earthly body and your eternal life will begin. For the Christian, what a wonderful day that will be! Until then, ask are you are making the most of your life here on earth, savoring each moment of beauty, joy, and love? Start now and you'll have plenty of time to try each of the 101 fascinating suggestions presented in this unique book, 101 Things to Do Before Going to Heaven. It could be the most meaningful fun you'll have this side of eternity.
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March 19, 2016
Ce faină e cărțulia asta.
Pe lângă faptul că pe fiecare paginuță se vorbește cu și despre Dumnezeu, are niște sfaturi tare faine. Precum: să depășești o frică de a ta sau să faci de-a lungul vieții ceva ce nu ai făcut niciodată.
Să cauți și să scrii o scrisoare unui prieten din copilărie.
Să-ți faci singur o pâine, să saluți zorii unei zile, să-ți împlinești un vis și tot așa până la 101 și una de lucruri mici, mari sau cum or fi ele.
Eu am o listă de dorințe, cum ar veni, dar abia am ajuns la 50. Câteva am preluat de aici, câteva le făcusem deja.
“Fiecare moment din această viață ciudată și minunată, de la răsărit la asfințit, este un miracol. Undeva, întotdeauna, un trandafir își deschide petalele spre răsărit. Undeva, întotdeauna, o floare se ofilește în asfințit.” Beverly Nichols
”A trăi înseamnă să te naști treptat.” Antoine de Saint - Exupery
Pe lângă faptul că pe fiecare paginuță se vorbește cu și despre Dumnezeu, are niște sfaturi tare faine. Precum: să depășești o frică de a ta sau să faci de-a lungul vieții ceva ce nu ai făcut niciodată.
Să cauți și să scrii o scrisoare unui prieten din copilărie.
Să-ți faci singur o pâine, să saluți zorii unei zile, să-ți împlinești un vis și tot așa până la 101 și una de lucruri mici, mari sau cum or fi ele.
Eu am o listă de dorințe, cum ar veni, dar abia am ajuns la 50. Câteva am preluat de aici, câteva le făcusem deja.
“Fiecare moment din această viață ciudată și minunată, de la răsărit la asfințit, este un miracol. Undeva, întotdeauna, un trandafir își deschide petalele spre răsărit. Undeva, întotdeauna, o floare se ofilește în asfințit.” Beverly Nichols
”A trăi înseamnă să te naști treptat.” Antoine de Saint - Exupery
March 24, 2009
Like I wrote on another review, I am on a bucket list kick. This one was far more helpful since it was written by Christians that urge you to be a better person. Most of the suggestions are vague but there were some specific examples that I really liked: play in the mud as an adult (with a child if you feel uncomfortable by people's stares), spend a day with God (i.e. praying, reading in your scriptures, singing, writing in your journal) and create your own signature dish.
November 26, 2011
Some good suggestions with a Christian slant of things to do before you die. A quick read I checked out from the library.
March 28, 2022
Some of the ideas were kind of intriguing, but, meh, overall the collection of ideas seemed rather sophomoric. And then when I got to the part about standing up for something like (I'm guessing against) stem cell research, I was put off. I mean, stem cells can come from the umbilical cord during conception or whathaveyou - they don't necessarily have to come from that one thing...good grief.
February 26, 2011
This was not quite what I expected - I was hoping for a list of awesome suggestions to add to my life list. However, it was a good reminder of the things that matter. Rather than racking up "life experiences" we are to live our lives fully and bring God along in all we do. And I did find a few things to add to my life list, such as a traditional British tea, be a Big Sister and watch a meteor shower.
August 25, 2010
It was interesting, I probobly won't be able to do all these things.
And a couple I just don't want to (like eating a hot peper).
But the writing on each was really interesting.
And a couple I just don't want to (like eating a hot peper).
But the writing on each was really interesting.
September 29, 2012
This is a fantastic listing of wonderful opportunities for living a better life while we are here on earth.
March 23, 2016
What a treasure of inspiring, fun, and meaningful ideas! A keepsake lil' book, I'll have to find other copies to share. Would be sweet to add to friends Easter baskets!
December 10, 2016
Don't put it off...you never know when your time is up!
March 12, 2017
I can't believe it's possible.
It's a dream that becomes true: I can review 101 Things you Should do Before Going to Heaven. Published by FaithWords, Hachette Group, written by David Bordon and Tom Winters at first in 2006 and as an eBook in 2008, the book has been re-published this past 2016.
I lived a sort of Odyssey with this book in digital format.
I downloaded it through NetGalley but for some reasons the file didn't work.
I tried to contact the publishing house, and NetGalley.
They sorted out the problem. When I could download the file unfortunately a big snow kept me away from my daily routine and from reading. I have dial-up so when I download eBooks I must go somewhere else.
The file in the while expired. Later I joined FaithWords. It's a book bloggers program and I re-discovered this book. I asked a copy and a beautiful hardcover book is close to me while I am writing this review. I read it all last night.
So: we all know that we live for a certain time but our life won't be endless. One day, let's hope the more possible distant moment, we will die.
In this while God sent Us here because we are necessary in this precise moment to the world and also at the same time because of course we must live a plenty life.
We all know how absorbing, and sad, let me also add this word can be life. It appears at first a life plenty of good things but then in synthesis, what will remain if we don't cultivate ourselves, our friends, people who care the most for us?
This book will suggest you 101 things to do before well yes, going to Heaven where we will meet God.
What exactly?
I can tell you that my dad before he went to Heaven planted a lot of trees. He was a tree-lovers and he loved fruits. So he planted a lot of fruits trees, apple trees in particular. He loved good wine, and he loved to make homemade wine. He also loved to be social and he loved to be surrounded by many friends. He planted seeds of friendship and seeds of wisdom.
Of course options are myriads in this book, - we are all different - from baking real bread, great connection with God, passing through to a road trip all alone to do once in a while for re-discover old roads and our self. In the USA it's famous and typical the Route 66 but I guess there are plenty of choices. I remember the movie Elizabethtown and the protagonist Drew. He launched himself thanks also to the tips and the scrapbook donated him by his girlfriend in a trip in the nowhere after the death of his dad for re-discovering his self in solitude, and a State, the Kentucky one that he didn't know very well living in California.
Contact with nature is important so if you can visit the Yosemite Park for seeing sequoias once in your life-time it would be wonderful.
And before going to Heaven why not visiting one of the seven Wonders of this world?
We should stop to act our age, we should start to cultivate interests, re-start to studying for better ourselves, reading classics, listening to music, meditate, bless and pray for an enemy, enjoy a dawn, celebrate little things, dancing in the rain :-) help other people, remember our life-story also writing it down, rediscover an old friendship. I can tell you that sometimes it is true: we leave people behind, also people who have been very nice and close to us because of life and sometimes it's too late for recuperate because that person can be dead. It happened to me and then you ask to yourself a lot of questions.
Sometimes try to send some note to your friends but without to add any signature. To someone you love for let her/him know that you are thinking of him/her.
Spend sometime to a cemetery for a hi! to all the people who lived before us and made their own History little or big that it was. Dead people appreciate it a lot.
After my dad's departure it's difficult that I avoid a day without to visit the little cemetery of our countryside. A little Spoon River, where there are most of our neighbors and friends, each of them with characteristics and passions and human treats unique in their genre.
It's not a scaring place a cemetery but a place of peace.
Once, when a neighbor killed herself I was devastated and I was sick really sick for what happened for more than a year and half. I remember dad said me: "Anna, cemeteries can't be scaring but relaxing places. They tell the story of our past, and our local history. I love to visit them. Try to enjoy the past of our people. Try to enjoy our past people."
Let's try also to speak well of other people, to plant some herbs for eating better, to plant also some new seeds of friendship cultivating also friends we have so that this garden of friendship will become always more populated, diversified, colored and beautiful.
If you will die tomorrow, or today how your dear ones will remember you?
In my case there would be a lot of pieces I posted online. My blog of Johnny Depp, my book blog alfemminile, Twitter, Facebook, my real life. My news printed in our regional newsmagazine. I am a reporter.
I don't know if people would be devastated if I would die.
Anyway, let's try to leave something in this world of very positive so that people will remember us forever.
A man never dies if remembered by people.
Mainly, what we should all do is to try to be happy, re-discovering our inner child and trying to do also silly things, because it's in this dimension, the dimension of our real self that God love us the most.
He sent us in fact at first on this Earth with a pure soul.
So:Enjoy the Trip, enjoy the Road, enjoy what you and your soul will learn in this Life.
And always, always: May God Bless US All.
I thank NetGalley, Hachette and FaithWords for this book!
It's a dream that becomes true: I can review 101 Things you Should do Before Going to Heaven. Published by FaithWords, Hachette Group, written by David Bordon and Tom Winters at first in 2006 and as an eBook in 2008, the book has been re-published this past 2016.
I lived a sort of Odyssey with this book in digital format.
I downloaded it through NetGalley but for some reasons the file didn't work.
I tried to contact the publishing house, and NetGalley.
They sorted out the problem. When I could download the file unfortunately a big snow kept me away from my daily routine and from reading. I have dial-up so when I download eBooks I must go somewhere else.
The file in the while expired. Later I joined FaithWords. It's a book bloggers program and I re-discovered this book. I asked a copy and a beautiful hardcover book is close to me while I am writing this review. I read it all last night.
So: we all know that we live for a certain time but our life won't be endless. One day, let's hope the more possible distant moment, we will die.
In this while God sent Us here because we are necessary in this precise moment to the world and also at the same time because of course we must live a plenty life.
We all know how absorbing, and sad, let me also add this word can be life. It appears at first a life plenty of good things but then in synthesis, what will remain if we don't cultivate ourselves, our friends, people who care the most for us?
This book will suggest you 101 things to do before well yes, going to Heaven where we will meet God.
What exactly?
I can tell you that my dad before he went to Heaven planted a lot of trees. He was a tree-lovers and he loved fruits. So he planted a lot of fruits trees, apple trees in particular. He loved good wine, and he loved to make homemade wine. He also loved to be social and he loved to be surrounded by many friends. He planted seeds of friendship and seeds of wisdom.
Of course options are myriads in this book, - we are all different - from baking real bread, great connection with God, passing through to a road trip all alone to do once in a while for re-discover old roads and our self. In the USA it's famous and typical the Route 66 but I guess there are plenty of choices. I remember the movie Elizabethtown and the protagonist Drew. He launched himself thanks also to the tips and the scrapbook donated him by his girlfriend in a trip in the nowhere after the death of his dad for re-discovering his self in solitude, and a State, the Kentucky one that he didn't know very well living in California.
Contact with nature is important so if you can visit the Yosemite Park for seeing sequoias once in your life-time it would be wonderful.
And before going to Heaven why not visiting one of the seven Wonders of this world?
We should stop to act our age, we should start to cultivate interests, re-start to studying for better ourselves, reading classics, listening to music, meditate, bless and pray for an enemy, enjoy a dawn, celebrate little things, dancing in the rain :-) help other people, remember our life-story also writing it down, rediscover an old friendship. I can tell you that sometimes it is true: we leave people behind, also people who have been very nice and close to us because of life and sometimes it's too late for recuperate because that person can be dead. It happened to me and then you ask to yourself a lot of questions.
Sometimes try to send some note to your friends but without to add any signature. To someone you love for let her/him know that you are thinking of him/her.
Spend sometime to a cemetery for a hi! to all the people who lived before us and made their own History little or big that it was. Dead people appreciate it a lot.
After my dad's departure it's difficult that I avoid a day without to visit the little cemetery of our countryside. A little Spoon River, where there are most of our neighbors and friends, each of them with characteristics and passions and human treats unique in their genre.
It's not a scaring place a cemetery but a place of peace.
Once, when a neighbor killed herself I was devastated and I was sick really sick for what happened for more than a year and half. I remember dad said me: "Anna, cemeteries can't be scaring but relaxing places. They tell the story of our past, and our local history. I love to visit them. Try to enjoy the past of our people. Try to enjoy our past people."
Let's try also to speak well of other people, to plant some herbs for eating better, to plant also some new seeds of friendship cultivating also friends we have so that this garden of friendship will become always more populated, diversified, colored and beautiful.
If you will die tomorrow, or today how your dear ones will remember you?
In my case there would be a lot of pieces I posted online. My blog of Johnny Depp, my book blog alfemminile, Twitter, Facebook, my real life. My news printed in our regional newsmagazine. I am a reporter.
I don't know if people would be devastated if I would die.
Anyway, let's try to leave something in this world of very positive so that people will remember us forever.
A man never dies if remembered by people.
Mainly, what we should all do is to try to be happy, re-discovering our inner child and trying to do also silly things, because it's in this dimension, the dimension of our real self that God love us the most.
He sent us in fact at first on this Earth with a pure soul.
So:Enjoy the Trip, enjoy the Road, enjoy what you and your soul will learn in this Life.
And always, always: May God Bless US All.
I thank NetGalley, Hachette and FaithWords for this book!
December 1, 2020
4.5 Overdrive audio book and kindle ebook. Started listening to this and decided to buy the kindle ebook so I could bookmark my favorites. I have done a lot of these things in my life yet there are a lot I have not and look forward to crossing off my bucket list. something for everyone here!
October 26, 2022
Thought provoking.
May 26, 2023
Carte pentru penticostali.
September 16, 2016
"Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk is a miracle. Somewhere, always, a rose is opening its pedals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk." ~Beverly Nichols
Instead of an actual book review, I'd love to just type the 101 things listed in this bucket-list type book of things we should do before going to heaven. They are awesome ideas, some of which I have already conquered, and some of which I actually do have on my bucket-list. Now that I've done a sneak peak of the whole list before reading the whole book, I see that I need to do a little tweaking to my own list to include some of these awesome ideas!
I'm going to grab three of the ones I found to be quite interesting to share with you here. You can pick up a copy of the book yourself to tackle the remaining 98 things on the list!
** Become an Undercover Encourager. Do something secret, do something only God and you will ever know about. First ask God to help lead you to that one person you should pour encouragement over. Once you've been led to that particular person, begin praying for them and for His direction on how you should be led to take action. God's Spirit and your creativity should begin pouring out this good work in the form of flowers, greeting cards, scripture or poems every week or so. Most importantly, resist the urge to tell someone. No bragging allowed. Continue pouring out this encouragement and you may even hear second hand about your good work. If you don't hear about here on earth, you'll certainly hear about it in heaven.
** Risk Looking Stupid. Noah built a boat in his front yard before anyone knew what a flood was! With some rocks and a slingshot, David volunteered to fight the giant Goliath! If you want to become the person that God designed you to be, you need to take the risk of looking stupid sometimes. Those in the Bible that did this accomplished some amazing things. It takes courage, humility and faith to go against the grain sometimes. You'll risk the criticism of others but don't let that stop you. Talk to the nonbeliever about your relationship with God, or forgive the wrong that seems unforgiveable - risk doing what God wants you to do even when the task surpasses your abilities.
** Get Comfortable In Your Own Skin. When you get new shoes, the only way to make them feel comfortable is to break them in. The same goes for your body. God intertwined both beauty and wonder into your body, creating it to reflect His glorious image. Once you get to heaven, you'll get a new body - one that doesn't break down or wear out, but in the meantime, you aren't there yet, so the more comfortable you are in your body here on earth, the better you'll be able to use it and enjoy it. Get down on the floor and play with a child or use your muscles to help a neighbor move into their house, get off the couch some other way. Ask God to help you put your inhibitions aside and stop comparing yourself to others. Get up and get moving.
In case the 101 items listed in this book don't fulfill your life before you go to heaven, the author was kind enough to add some blank sheets to write down a few things you want to do before you go to heaven too! This book makes for a great read, a gentle reminder of the things we need to incorporate into our lives regularly. Because it's a nice, compact hardbound book, it would make for a great gift too!
I received a complimentary copy of 101 Things You Should Do Before Going to Heaven by David Borden and Tom Winters from Faith Words, a division of Hachette Book Groups in exchange for my honest review.
Instead of an actual book review, I'd love to just type the 101 things listed in this bucket-list type book of things we should do before going to heaven. They are awesome ideas, some of which I have already conquered, and some of which I actually do have on my bucket-list. Now that I've done a sneak peak of the whole list before reading the whole book, I see that I need to do a little tweaking to my own list to include some of these awesome ideas!
I'm going to grab three of the ones I found to be quite interesting to share with you here. You can pick up a copy of the book yourself to tackle the remaining 98 things on the list!
** Become an Undercover Encourager. Do something secret, do something only God and you will ever know about. First ask God to help lead you to that one person you should pour encouragement over. Once you've been led to that particular person, begin praying for them and for His direction on how you should be led to take action. God's Spirit and your creativity should begin pouring out this good work in the form of flowers, greeting cards, scripture or poems every week or so. Most importantly, resist the urge to tell someone. No bragging allowed. Continue pouring out this encouragement and you may even hear second hand about your good work. If you don't hear about here on earth, you'll certainly hear about it in heaven.
** Risk Looking Stupid. Noah built a boat in his front yard before anyone knew what a flood was! With some rocks and a slingshot, David volunteered to fight the giant Goliath! If you want to become the person that God designed you to be, you need to take the risk of looking stupid sometimes. Those in the Bible that did this accomplished some amazing things. It takes courage, humility and faith to go against the grain sometimes. You'll risk the criticism of others but don't let that stop you. Talk to the nonbeliever about your relationship with God, or forgive the wrong that seems unforgiveable - risk doing what God wants you to do even when the task surpasses your abilities.
** Get Comfortable In Your Own Skin. When you get new shoes, the only way to make them feel comfortable is to break them in. The same goes for your body. God intertwined both beauty and wonder into your body, creating it to reflect His glorious image. Once you get to heaven, you'll get a new body - one that doesn't break down or wear out, but in the meantime, you aren't there yet, so the more comfortable you are in your body here on earth, the better you'll be able to use it and enjoy it. Get down on the floor and play with a child or use your muscles to help a neighbor move into their house, get off the couch some other way. Ask God to help you put your inhibitions aside and stop comparing yourself to others. Get up and get moving.
In case the 101 items listed in this book don't fulfill your life before you go to heaven, the author was kind enough to add some blank sheets to write down a few things you want to do before you go to heaven too! This book makes for a great read, a gentle reminder of the things we need to incorporate into our lives regularly. Because it's a nice, compact hardbound book, it would make for a great gift too!
I received a complimentary copy of 101 Things You Should Do Before Going to Heaven by David Borden and Tom Winters from Faith Words, a division of Hachette Book Groups in exchange for my honest review.
July 28, 2014
I'm sure you have heard of thing like "bucket lists" or "things to do before you die" but I found a much better book that offers you something more. It's a wonderful little gem tucked between the hard cover and provides you with more than simply a list of ideas of things you should accomplish before you go to heaven. This is definitely a book for believers in Jesus Christ, because there is only one way to heaven and that is found in Christ. Yet the book offers us a glimpse at some of the wonderful ideas we can do while we are still living here in this world.
I believe as adults, life comes at us too fast. We have responsibilities to manage, families to care for, jobs to perform and along the way, I feel we simply forget how to enjoy this life. God created it for us to enjoy while we are here and inside are a list of some amazing things to do. It offers you a chance at bringing back some of that fun and imagination we had when we were children. The best part is that you are more than welcome to bring your family, friends and children along for the journey and remind them life doesn't end once you've become an adult and some "playtime" is definitely par for the course at keeping us happy and healthy.
"If you are a Christian, you can look forward to a magnificent eternity in heaven and your arrival there will be an indescribable homecoming. A new beginning. A new body. A new intimacy with God. A new life - one without end. No more pain. No more tears. No more sun or moon, because God's own glory will provide enough light. Although God hasn't provided you with a crystal-clear picture of what your eternal home will be like, you can be sure it will exceed your wildest dreams. It will be what your heart has always longed for here on earth but could never quite touch. It will be paradise in every sense of the word. But you're not there yet.
This book is designed to help you make the most of every day God has set aside for you here on earth. Take hold of the wonderful adventure God has planned for your life. And if you have not done so, take hold of His grace, forgiveness and unfailing love. Then go out there and really live. There's a wild and wonderful world that's longing to catch a glimpse of God - and heaven - through you." (excerpt from Introduction.)
Some of the ideas listed in the book are:
Read the Classics
Do Something That Scares You
Celebrate a Traditional British Tea
Spend a Day Alone with God
Watch a Meteor Shower
Become an Undercover Encourager
Make Yourself at Home in a Cemetary
Greet the Dawn
There are simply so many great ideas and suggestions that do more than offer a place to go. Some suggestions offer ways of getting beyond your own wants and needs and help others. It's all about making the time you have here, worth while. It will be the one thing we can take with us to heaven are the memories we have of our time here. So if you're looking for something to do to make your life more meaningful or simply a great gift idea that goes beyond what you had dreamed, you might just want to pick this book up.
I received 101 Things You Should Do Before Going to Heaven by David Borden and Tom Winters compliments of Faith Words, a division of Hachette Book Groups for my honest review. I did not receive any monetary compensation for a favorable review and the opinions expressed here are strictly my own, unless otherwise notated. Hands down, I can't wait to finish checking off quite a few of the ideas listed in this book and give it a 5 out of 5 stars in my opinion.
I believe as adults, life comes at us too fast. We have responsibilities to manage, families to care for, jobs to perform and along the way, I feel we simply forget how to enjoy this life. God created it for us to enjoy while we are here and inside are a list of some amazing things to do. It offers you a chance at bringing back some of that fun and imagination we had when we were children. The best part is that you are more than welcome to bring your family, friends and children along for the journey and remind them life doesn't end once you've become an adult and some "playtime" is definitely par for the course at keeping us happy and healthy.
"If you are a Christian, you can look forward to a magnificent eternity in heaven and your arrival there will be an indescribable homecoming. A new beginning. A new body. A new intimacy with God. A new life - one without end. No more pain. No more tears. No more sun or moon, because God's own glory will provide enough light. Although God hasn't provided you with a crystal-clear picture of what your eternal home will be like, you can be sure it will exceed your wildest dreams. It will be what your heart has always longed for here on earth but could never quite touch. It will be paradise in every sense of the word. But you're not there yet.
This book is designed to help you make the most of every day God has set aside for you here on earth. Take hold of the wonderful adventure God has planned for your life. And if you have not done so, take hold of His grace, forgiveness and unfailing love. Then go out there and really live. There's a wild and wonderful world that's longing to catch a glimpse of God - and heaven - through you." (excerpt from Introduction.)
Some of the ideas listed in the book are:
Read the Classics
Do Something That Scares You
Celebrate a Traditional British Tea
Spend a Day Alone with God
Watch a Meteor Shower
Become an Undercover Encourager
Make Yourself at Home in a Cemetary
Greet the Dawn
There are simply so many great ideas and suggestions that do more than offer a place to go. Some suggestions offer ways of getting beyond your own wants and needs and help others. It's all about making the time you have here, worth while. It will be the one thing we can take with us to heaven are the memories we have of our time here. So if you're looking for something to do to make your life more meaningful or simply a great gift idea that goes beyond what you had dreamed, you might just want to pick this book up.
I received 101 Things You Should Do Before Going to Heaven by David Borden and Tom Winters compliments of Faith Words, a division of Hachette Book Groups for my honest review. I did not receive any monetary compensation for a favorable review and the opinions expressed here are strictly my own, unless otherwise notated. Hands down, I can't wait to finish checking off quite a few of the ideas listed in this book and give it a 5 out of 5 stars in my opinion.
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