What do you protect and how do you protect it?

Blink XT camera
Arrived yesterday. Blink offers features others brands don’t. Small, battery-powered, wireless, outdoor-proof, motion detection, etc, etc.

 

facebook breach
Last night…breaking news. Watched the ABC Evening News recording about an hour after the live broadcast.

 

Facebook breach
Thumbs down?

 

Facebook breach
What once seemed invincible…

 

What do you protect and how do you protect it?

Home security – including motion alerts, from anywhere, at any time.

Personal data security – all of our data – calls, location, friends, messages, etc, etc.

Spiritual security – this week between Palm Sunday (two days ago) and Easter Sunday – is the Holiest week of the year for Christians.

Are we consciously protecting our spiritual assets?

You know, peace, comfort, compassion, patience, generosity, faith, hope, forgiveness, and gratitude.

Ain’t no app for that, no security cameras, nor any digital software to protect our spirit.

 

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We resist and fear change automatically

Homeowner meeting
Controversy and fear of change. Vacant land near our community has most people worried about change.

 

Lake Mable
Looking across the lake we share with Walt Disney World.

 

Four Seasons at Walt Disney World
Four Seasons at Walt Disney World on the other side.

 

Sundays are a traditional “church-day” for many Americans.

Yet there’s decent media coverage that church attendance is declining.

Lots of “justifiable reasons” for only going to Church on Easter and Christmas Sundays.

We didn’t go yesterday.

Why?

“Justifiable reasons”.

Which leads me here…

We resist and fear change automatically.

The change that has engulfed our 70-acre neighborhood the past decade is best described as an urban-growth tsunami.

Similar to what New York City looked like before Christopher Columbus discovered America and what it looks like now.

In a 15-mile by two-mile north-to-south corridor along State Road 535, there was nothing here but wilderness.

It has all been aggressively developed.

No more open space.

But there is one spot that is sparsely populated.

We are in a rare 200-acre part of Orange County that has homes zoned from one home per two acres to one per 10-acres.

There’s pressure to change this.

 

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Nursing homes really make you think

Fall foliage
i wondered what the tree looked like from the trunk up.

 

Fall foliage
Remarkably similar.

 

Nursing homes really make you think.

What do we envision our final years being comprised of?

No one really plans on a nursing home.

But if that’s the hand we’re dealt, how would we respond to daily life, knowing this was the final home for us – never would there be any other option.

Of course, Hospice is probable, but you would most likely remain in the nursing home.

i love feeling uncomfortable with thoughts like these.

The best time to concern ourselves with stuff like this is when we don’t need to be.

 

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Disney Springs is a four-mile bike ride from home

AMC Zootopia ticket
Time stamped with yesterday’s date., May 30, 2016.

 

Love that our drive to Disney Springs takes less than 10 minutes, including traffic.

PS. The new Disney Springs is much larger than i expected. World-class all the way.

It’s a four-mile bike ride.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s career health website, click here.

 

Praying near Downtown Disney and praying near downtown Orlando

Home pressure washing

 

(photo above: Returned from yesterday’s run to find the house painting crew gearing up)

 

Amway Center

 

(photo above: The stress from work and high expectations can take a toll. It’s our responsibility to figure this out so we can thrive, not merely survive.)

Balance in all five of life’s big choices is abandoned because it’s too hard.

Stress management is often attacked with prayer. Prayer alone is not enough.

Why?

Because we are not just a spiritual, emotional creature.

We also move, think, work, and dwell.

When we carry one end of the stick we carry the other.

We cannot separate life’s (5) big choices.

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