Sevens

Last week Macon Stokes on Kith and Kin did a list of "seven things" and called me out to do the same. Here is my own feeble attempt at a number of sevens:

7 "I remember this scene exactly" Moments:
*Hearing the news on September 11th
*Seeing the news coverage of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion (the September 11th equivalent of my generation's school years)
*Getting my acceptance letter to UNC
*Proposing to my wife
*Cutting Davis' cord at his birth
*Cutting Zoe's cord at her birth
*Praying with my mom to receive Christ in a small church in Vermont

7 Things that I cannot do that I think a father should be able to do:
*Whistle
*Fix anything (as in, a father should be able to fix anything...and I can't fix anything)
*Draw
*Teach my kid any one sport skill really well
*Juggle
*Make up crazy/funny/adventurous stories off the top of my head
*Eat lima beans without wincing

7 Books I'd like every Christian to read:
*The Business of Heaven--365 days getting a glorious sampling of C.S. Lewis' thought
*Future Grace--John Piper
*Inside Out--Larry Crabb
*Divine Conspiracy--Dallas Willard
*Divided by Faith--Michael Emerson and Christian Smith
*Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places--Eugene Peterson

7 Things I'd like to see in my lifetime:
*Davis and Zoe coming to faith
*A 3-peat in college or pro football
*My 50th wedding anniversary
*The Grand Canyon
*The church (and para-church!) joyfully reconciled and integrated across racial lines
*Winning my fantasy football league (probably the least likely of the seven)
*Revival at UNC or VCU--two places I have spent my entire adult life praying over

7 Thoughts I've had this week:
*"Man, how do we get Davis to sleep to a more Godly hour?" (5:15 a.m. wake-up this morning)
*A corollary to the above: "Man, what the heck am I going to do next week without grandparents here to get Davis when he wakes up at the aforementioned ungodly hour?"
*A corollary to the above: "Man, how did any family survive traveling west in covered wagons a couple hundred years ago?"
*On a different note: "I wonder if Peter Jackson will let me borrow The Shire if I live to my 111th birthday?" (I've been watching The Fellowship of the Ring with the writer/director commentary on and Jackson says that he so loved the Shire set he bought it from the studio and put it in storage.)
*"How do we develop a missional community out of our leadership team this weekend at leadership retreat?"
*"Lost is killing me by stretching every next little step in the plot into one whole episode."
*"Man, if I did a 'sevens' list like Macon did, what the heck would I say?"