Vote November 4th!

In light of the Presidential election coming up on Tuesday, I had to share this video that a friend sent me today. I have seen more eagerness and passion to vote this election than ever before. I stood in line at the Registrar of Voters office this week for 2 hours to vote…amazing. I’m so glad people are exercising their freedom to vote. Hope this makes you smile! And don’t forget to vote!!

Obama/McCain interviews

I’m not a fan of Howard Stern but you MUST listen to the interviews that his staff conducted in Harlem about the Presidential Election. This is sad no matter who you intend to vote for. Thanks to my co-worker, Tara, for sharing!

http://www.bpmdeejays.com/upload/hs_sal_in_Harlem_100108.mp3

A Little Perspective

My friend, Sherry, sent this to me last week and honestly, I sarcastically thought to myself, “Great, another forward!” I ended up reading it and was surprised, a.) I hadn’t read it already, and b.) I actually thought it was pretty good.  So I thought I’d share it with you and hope it gives you a little perspective…in our busy world with all of us moving at hectic paces, you never know what kind of impact you may have on someone if you just stop to help them.

“A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night’s dinner. In their rush to make their return flight with tickets and briefcases in hand, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding.ALL BUT ONE! He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned.

He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye and told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor.

He was glad he did.

 

The 16-year-old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket.

When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, ’Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?’ She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, ‘I hope we didn’t spoil your day too badly.’As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, ‘Mister….’ He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, ‘Are you Jesus?’ 

 

He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: ‘Are you Jesus?’

 

Do people mistake you for Jesus? That’s our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to or have never known His love, life and grace.

If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting scripture and going to church. It’s actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our ‘damaged fruit.’”

 

 

Pink at the Polls

Hey friends! My boss, Julio Melara, is involved in a fun campaign to raise breast cancer awareness, called PINK AT THE POLLS. There are five “candidates” who are competing to win, “best man in pink,” and Julio is one of them. Please go to the Pink at the Polls web site and vote for Julio. You can vote as many times a day as you want and the voting doesn’t end until October 16th. Here is a link to his page on the site.

Here is the video the Baton Rouge General (the masterminds behind the campaign) put together of all the candidates.

Thanks for voting! Oh, and you may see a “life-size” cutout of Julio around town…hint: Sullivan’s and DeAngelo’s Pizza!