We are D2R
Disconnect 2 Reconnect was born on a Sunday morning while listening to a friend talk about the way Jesus would always end up his work days going up to the top of the mountains or sailing out to the sea to be alone in the stillness of nature and recharge and reconnect with His Father! and that’s when it hit me: If he needed to disconnect… so do we!
I thought about the fact that we no longer connect with each other face to face, we walk down the street and no one is looking up to each others eyes, but everyone is looking down to some sort of screen!
In this super digitally connected times we are seeing the worst in people feeling lonely, anxious and depressed
We need to take time out NOW!
We need time in nature to re-focus our lives back to the things that really matter!
D2R is about disconnecting from all electronics, hiking, soaking up nature, enjoying the simple pleasures that make us incredibly happy, one hike at the time.
As we venture out to the mountains, woods, lakes, rives, oceans, let’s awake our senses by doing things like:
Smell the perfume of pine trees and flowers, the sea-salt
Listen and recognize the songs and styles of different birds, the sounds of. waves, cascades, rivers, rain falling. Listen to the sounds of silence. Enjoy solitude with no noises from electronics!
Watch an eagle soar against the wind, sunrises, sunsets, snowing,
Feel the wind on our face!
Walk barefoot on the grass
Stand in Awe at a mountain’s summit
Be amazed at natures never ending beauty!
NOW is the time!
Get up! Let’s go outside to Nature!
Let’s Go Back Home!
As writer W . Nichols expresses in his book about the Blue Mind, ” Too many of us live overwhelmed , suffocated by work, personal conflicts, the intrusion of technology and media, and in the process of trying to do it all we end up stressed about everything. We check our voice mail at midnight, our email by dawn, and spend the time in between bouncing from website 2 website, viral videos 2 viral video, PERPETUALLY EXHAUSTED!”
THIS IS WHY WE NEED D2R!
We need to unplug from all electronics, smartphones, screens, alerts, noises and STOP!
Stop our 24/7 always connected life style. Get outside BE QUIET, IN SOLITUDE, TO BE ABLE TO listen again to what God is saying to us through Nature, and be able to listen to our own selves, and each other:
We believe D2R is a way of life! We need to go outside on the regular bases to hike up some mountain top, hike around a valley, walk around a lake, take a walk by the ocean, or simply discover local trails around our neighborhoods
Bear Grylls once said: ” All I know is nature brings out the real me, when i need space or time, when i am grieving or in pain, where do i run to? i run to the mountains or the ocean where i can find quiet and peace and it feels like home. USE YOUR GOD GIVEN NATURAL SPIRIT, IT WILL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR YOU. DON’T BE SCARED TO COME ALIVE! ” In todays’s digital era, WE MUST D2R!
D2R will help us find Purpose!
As somebody wrote ” it is the essential roll of human purpose that smartphones so dangerously erode. By diverting our natural curiosity to more and more random and less and less meaningful tasks, they diminish our energy and time, leaving us lost! We need to find our way back by D2R!
