Disney Customer Service Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Blogging, if you’ve ever thought about doing it, really challenges you to discover, deep down inside, what you believe in.
And when you post it on the Internet, the whole world sees it.
It really forces you to commit to your beliefs. And even better, it challenges you to rise to the behavior you preach about.
It’s transformed my life.
Now, God has whispered to me that others may also find this transformational tool helpful. You can do it. 🙂
But do you want to?
The joy of having two Guest bloggers this week pales in comparison to the pain of the Haiti earthquake victims.
Last night, after my son and I walked Carter, we hurriedly returned to our house.
Told our son we needed to watch the evening news at 6:30PM.
Our lifestyle doesn’t make much time to watch TV. And this week has been exceptionally busy (see today’s Lane 8 challenge).
We watched Diane Sawyer on ABC Evening news describe the tragedy in Haiti. I wanted our son to understand the magnitude.
Yes, he’s only nine. But he’s smart. He’s compassionate. He has a caring heart.
It’s my sacred responsibility to teach him Life’s Big Four.
And it was the day prior to yesterday that he became my first Guest Blogger.
Paradox?
Life provides no guarantees except the proverbial “death & taxes“.
So, was all the effort, all those weekends, all those years worth it?
Um, yes.
What makes humans feel guilt?
What makes you feel guilty?
Know what makes me feel guilty?
This week, my son and I have taken several sunset walks. We end up in our back yard. A really big back yard. The sun has set, and now it’s twilight.
“Son, look around. Do you see how much space is here in this yard, from one side to the other?”
He says, “Yes.”
“I’m not saying that other sized yards are better or worse. I’m just saying that Mommy and Daddy worked really, really hard to make this yard possible.”
For something like seven years, Cheryl and I spent, what seemed like a majority of our weekends looking for a big yard near Walt Disney World.
The first 15 years in Central Florida, I worked every weekend, and had either a Saturday or a Sunday off, but never both.
And on that lone weekend day off, we combed the area north of Disney, south of Disney, east of Disney, west of Disney.
The result? Nothing. Year after year. Nothing.
Until one day….
Been awake for an hour now, but not fully, wide-eyed, awake.
Sort of a numb-awake, if that’s even a term. The kind of semi-conscious consciousness from working really hard at something and having “sore muscles” from it.
Except, these muscles aren’t physical, they’re spiritual. Ever think so much, or meditate so much that you’re mind and spirit are foggy the next day? Perhaps it’s the equivalent of a hangover, without the nausea.
So many people are struggling with so many things. It’s everywhere and affects everyone. It overwhelms me.
And I often feel guilty.
Do you ever feel similar to this?
Crazy thing is, it’s always been like this.
So it deserves more dialogue, if for no other reason than to clear some thoughts, or at the very least, grab the right folder.