A couple of days ago, I saw that the Melting Pot was having a contest in honor of National Chocolate Fondue Day. They wanted users to submit a 30 second video & explain which type of chocolate fondue best represents you: dark, milk, or white. The winner will receive free fondue for a year ($1,200 worth).
SO…we decided to enter. Here’s my family’s entry for the contest. We’ll find out if we win on Thursday. Everything in the video (footage, music, singing, etc…) is completely original and is me, my wife, and my little boy, so hopefully they’ll think it’s creative!
We’re calling it Like Milk Chocolate. We’d love to hear your thoughts about it!
Here are links to five things that caught my eye this week:
- This video cracks me up. I would have probably joined in the cheering as well. (Disclaimer for those that are ultra-sensitive: there is one cuss word)
- If you’re like me, life is way too busy most of the time. Here are 43 simple ways to simplify your life.
- For all of the Christians out there that struggle with things not feeling spiritual all the time, this post by Brad Ruggles is right on.
- I love the Melting Pot. I’m definitely making a video for this contest.
- “What if we through the Buts out?” is an awesome post about radical grace. We all need to give and receive more of it
I always joke that I’m going to run for president in 2016. It would be the first election that I would be old enough to run.
So…I have officially taken my first step. I have officially been named a Mayor! Well…Foursquare says so. I am the mayor of Starbucks in NE Columbia!
I don’t know what my platform will be during this term. Coffee I guess. I may even expand my role to other locations soon. Next thing you know I will be winning the Nobel Prize.
Brickey- 2016
I have a variety of people that come to this blog so I thought I’d fill you in on some random facts that you may or may not know about me:
- I was a batboy for the Kingsport Mets. I am even on two minor league baseball cards, although I missed the picture day for the card from 1990, so only my name appears on that one. I may have to upload a pic of the 1989 card sometime for your viewing pleasure.
- I don’t wear my Puma’s when it rains. I have a hole in them.
- My favorite drink at Starbucks is the White Chocolate Mocha. I’ve actually tried all the drinks on the menu because…
- I worked for about 7 months for an online high school as a Community Outreach Director. I had to visit a different Starbucks for 15 days to help people process paperwork.
- I’ve played in a professional basketball game but never got in a game at college. Technically, I played in two exhibition games against a professional team in Poland just before college. I was on the team at Sewanee my first semester of college, but I was injured for most of it. In the only game that I had 100% health, I was sitting at the scorer’s table waiting to check in when time expired.
- I’m a perfectionist.
- I used to drive limos in Louisville, Kentucky. The highlight may have been driving a man, woman, and the woman’s two kids to a DNA testing facility because they were going to be on the Maury Show. I never saw the results.
- I was voted “best all around” in high school. In other news, I’ve gained about 40 pounds all around since that time.
- I have a print and graphic design business, JW Printworks, but I really don’t enjoy graphic design.
- I play guitar and used to be in a band that played almost 100 times in one year, but I only have one guitar now and it’s broken.
What is something random about you?
A little over a year ago, my wife and I had the opportunity to go on a chiropractic mission trip to the Dominican Republic.
The highlight of my trip was when I met the young man in this picture: Johnny.
He came up to us at the resort and ate dinner with us.
He had a glow about him that was incredible.
He gushed about how God was doing an incredible work in his life and he wanted to make a difference.
He wanted to finish school and go back to his home country to “make it a better place.”
His family was all still there and had just moved to the country’s capital: Port-au-Prince
He is from Haiti.
Like most of you reading this, I have kind of been left numb when I see what has happened in Haiti.
The devastation. The lives lost. The despair.
I immediately thought of Johnny and my heart sunk even further when I thought…
Is he ok?
Is his family ok?
I decided to email him to check on him. It had been a while since we had been in contact but I prayed fervently that he was ok and that I would hear back from him. Less than 24 hours later, I got a response. He was ok because he was in the Dominican when the earthquake hit. The day after he rushed to Port-au-Prince to see about his family.
What he saw was devastating. He said that his home was destroyed and that saw things that he had never before seen in his life. His family was “not bad but not good.” A couple of siblings are battling injuries. Another brother was at work at the time of the earthquake and they do not know if he is even alive.
Then he said something that rocked me. He said this:
“Life is not good in Haiti but i think because of all those things, God has a plan for Haiti.”
Because of all those things, God has a plan for Haiti.
In the midst of devastation.
In the midst of the lives lost.
In the midst of despair.
God has a plan for Haiti.
Johnny’s faith and perseverance is incredible. His wisdom in a time of anguish is inspiring. I’m not going to add anything to it because I think nothing could add to it.
God has a plan for Haiti.
I just saw this video this morning on Tony Morgan’s blog and thought I’d pass it along. I think it’s a powerful version of the story of Christmas.
Hope you all have an incredible Christmas! Remember to be thankful this Christmas for all that we have and why you celebrate.
