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    The Healing Bucket
    The Healing Bucket
    The Healing Bucket
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    The Healing Bucket

    By K.L. Lantz

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    Prepare yourself for the future life you want to live. While there may be bucket lists full of items that sound exotic or alluring, the best goals are the most personal ones. What you want is not a bucket list, but a healing bucket. The items you add to your healing bucket will not come from a travel website or a fashion blog. They will call to you from within your heart as you use the power of prayer and this unique journaling aid to find the fulfillment you've been longing to find. This isn't just a journal and it isn't just a Christian motivational book. It's a little of both. And it's an invitation, a guide to a journey that ends with a greater sense of purpose and meaning, the kind that can only be found on a journey with Christ.

    Katrina Lantz is the author of the middle grade book Drats, Foiled Again! She is also a wife and mother to five rowdy boys. Finding peace and a fulfilling purpose in the midst of a sometimes crowded and chaotic life has not been easy for her, but with God all things are possible. Writing as K.L. Lantz, Katrina leans on her faith as a member of the Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints and shares her experiences after an intense year of goal-setting and miraculous fulfillment in this unique inspirational book, The Healing Bucket. Some miracles are big and some are small, but all have the same source. Lantz invites you to lean on Christ while daring to dream of a bigger and brighter life for yourself and those you love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherK.L. Lantz
    Release dateMar 27, 2019
    ISBN9781732202894
    The Healing Bucket
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    K.L. Lantz

    K.L. Lantz writes stories about superheroes and super villains. She grew up loving Darkwing Duck, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spiderman, Superman, and the Power Rangers and always wished she had super powers of her own. Soon after learning to read, she discovered that reading books about powerful people gave her a taste of their magic, too. Her favorite book as a child was The Girl With The Silver Eyes, and it's what inspired Robert's one gray eye in Drats, Foiled Again! and Bombs Away! K.L. Lantz always wondered what it would be like to live in a world full of super-powered people. Creating Surlyview, the villain town in her Drats Universe series, gave her a playground for these ideas. It's a playground just waiting for readers to jump in and join the fun.

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      The Healing Bucket - K.L. Lantz

      TABLE of CONTENTS

      Preface

      Chapter 1: Beyond the Bucket List

      Chapter 2: Who Are You?

      Chapter 3: The Life You Want to Have

      Chapter 4: Believe in Miracles

      Chapter 5: Embrace the Healing

      Chapter 6: Too Good to Be True

      Chapter 7: Prayer, People, Pursuits

      Chapter 8: Winnowing While You're Winning

      Chapter 9: Keep the People, Kick the Pessimism

      Chapter 10: What About This Crisis?

      Chapter 11: Grace and Gratitude

      Chapter 12: Reaching Out From the Summit to Help Others

      Preface

      Today is January 1st , 2019. Yesterday ended what I termed my Year of Overcoming, 2018. In it, I found personal emotional and spiritual healing from the disappointments, regret, and deep-seated shame that previously kept me from embracing optimism in my life. I want this type of healing for everyone!

      In January of 2018, I took up painting! January 12th found me wearing a royal blue leotard, of all things, in my first ballet class since college. It was an opportunity to recapture a piece of my childhood that has never strayed far from my heart.

      In April, I pulled the trigger and published my first novel, despite years of post-rejection self-shaming about the project.

      In May, I went back to school at Brigham Young University after a 15-year hiatus wherein life happened— marriage, childbirth x5, and over a decade of back-to-college nightmares. I changed my major from English to Neuroscience and challenged myself with my first science course since high school, Biology for Science Majors. Incredibly, I pulled out an A in that class, and by December, I had received five more As and increased, or as I say, rescued, my GPA by a whole point.

      In June, I danced in my first ballet recital in 24 years. Miraculously, I remembered every graceful step on stage in the nick of time.

      In September, I signed up for a full schedule at school. I dove into my studies with a fury and discovered that I was operating at the max of my limitations as a stay-at-home mom of five exciting boys. I studied planetary geology, art and philosophy across the world. Perhaps most life-changing of all, I studied anew the foundations of my own faith. Many epiphanies appeared as these subjects converged in unexpected ways.

      In October, I ran a marathon, my first one in ten years. It rained, of course...again. Undeterred, I finished the 26.2 mile run with a smile on my face, greeted by my big, beautiful family at the finish line.

      I wrote ten children’s books about astronomy as part of the development of a new elementary curriculum for a private school, Ensign Peak Academy. I got to use what I had learned in my planetary geology class and then stretched to learn even more about one of my favorite subjects, the stars and planets.

      Through God's grace, I was even blessed to participate in a special memoir project, helping one of my favorite neighbors to type up just a few of her journals from a life that has already spanned nine decades. I am convinced I got more out of our partnership than she did.

      By the end of 2018, I had improved my emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical health. To top it off, I had released 25 excess pounds that had been severely hampering my quality of life for years.

      How do I feel today? I feel triumphant. I feel blessed. I feel optimistic about the future.

      I feel happy.

      Of course this kind of life-changing joy doesn’t happen in a vacuum. I have God to thank, my husband, my parents, my children, my siblings and friends, not to mention a long list of mentors and professors to credit with the opportunities I enjoyed. There are few things that bring this type of wholeness. You don’t get it from money. You can’t find it in books alone, not even in this one. This type of wholeness comes through action, through personal change and self-discovery.

      Reading this book is a commitment you are making to yourself right now to ACT on the impressions that come to your mind in whatever way you deem appropriate. You may not take up painting or strap yourself into a leotard at the age of 34. You might not need to go back to school or race your heart out in the chilly rain.

      THE HEALING BUCKET is about you. It’s about identifying and tackling the regrets and disappointments which have held you back in the past. It’s about unleashing a feeling of empowerment and realizing that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass (Alma 37:6).

      Chapter 1

      Beyond the Bucket List

      Raise your hand if you’ve ever thought about writing a bucket list, a list of things to see and do before you die. Raise it higher if you actually committed your ideas to paper. Keep it up if you started doing those things and made it through more than five items on your long list of things to do someday.

      If you've made it this far with your hand still raised, Congratulations! No doubt you've already achieved some personal fulfillment from your experiences, even if they came from a generic list of exciting, sometimes expensive, adventures. Getting out of one’s comfort zone is generally a good thing. Discomfort inspires growth, just like the pearl in the oyster shell. What starts as a common irritant becomes a precious pearl as the oyster encases the irritating dirt in a soft, smooth, and shiny organic substance we call pearl.

      Getting out of your comfort zone is a start. This book attempts to go deeper. We’re not just looking for any old thing that’s outside of your comfort zone. This isn’t the movie Yes Man. The main character of that film experienced several uncomfortable but ultimately enlarging, character-growing experiences simply by saying yes to everything. I'm not going to suggest that you take your positivity practice that far.

      The Healing Bucket is about intentional growth. What you're committing to with this book/project is to seek growth intentionally, not to shy away from potentially painful changes, but to choose consciously to say yes when yes is the best answer.

      Why not just say yes to all? People are free to act and not merely to be acted upon. The God who made us and then imbued us with choice did so because he intended for us to use that freedom. Saying yes all the time doesn't allow you to have any boundaries, and despite the poet Robert Frost’s misgivings about fences, good fences [do] make good neighbors.

      Not every opportunity is equally worthwhile, even if it shows up on someone else's bucket list. Rather than filling up a bucket list, I want to challenge you to fill your Healing Bucket. What is the difference between a bucket list and a Healing Bucket? I'll illustrate with a story.

      It wasn’t long ago that my husband and I tried to put together a bucket list for him. I looked up bucket lists online and found several well-written articles about how to write a bucket list. The most exciting resource was a list of thousands of bucket list ideas. There were things like, Take an island vacation, and Ride a zip-line, or, "Walk across a glass

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