Leaping over lizards

There are more tempting stores and attractions to separate you from your money per square inch here in Orlando than anywhere else on earth. Everywhere you look there are signs announcing the finest, the funnest, the most exquisite and exhilarating options any human has ever faced to dispense with savings and retirement funds. This is not a town for those with weak will power. Everything I didn't know I needed or wanted flashed before my eyes, block after block. And that was just driving on the interstate. I felt like Odysseus, needing to be tied to the mast to resist the Siren's song.
"If I start spending money, you must tie my shoelaces together," I told Asherel.
"Good," she said, her eyes glazed with all the glitz around us, and I could she that once I was hobbled she intended to abscond with my credit card and go straight to the huge Best Buy and Petsmart palace.
They even provide free shuttles to the shopping outlet malls from all the area hotels. The Recession seems to have skipped over this city.

When we arrived at our lodging,
we knew we would need to put paper bags over our heads and glue our wallets shut or we would soon be begging for food on the corner with a cardboard sign that said , "Seduced by Mickey mouse and his friends. Penniless with nothing left but mickey mouse ears. Please help. "

We unrolled our creaky limbs out of the car and decided to explore the grounds of the place we were staying. As we walked in the warm and brilliant Florida sun, little lizards darted across the sidewalk. It was a reptilian stampede- droves of them dodged our toes. I had never seen anything like it. Lizards racing across the sidewalk like deer dodging cars.

They seemed to be waiting in the grass til we approached. And
then they all whispered quick strategy plans and in a flash, simultaneously scampered in our path. It was lizard hari-kari - a reptilian onslaught tempting death.
But why? What were they thinking?
Maybe they, like us, were looking temptation in the face and challenging fate. Perhaps they needed to prove to themselves they could overcome whatever danger approached. They were luckier than us however. We carefully stepped over them. But all those stores and entertainment parks are not so kind to us- they are not closing their doors so we don't spend money we don't have. We will have to exercise self-control.

Matthew 26:41 (NIV)
"Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak."





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