All in: the rest of the story...

This past Sunday I told a story about a domestic dispute that broke out right outside the window of the house I was staying in during the summer of my junior year in college .
I left you hanging so here is the rest of the story:

I knew that I had to do something because the boyfriend was physically assaulting his girlfriend. I ran downstairs and went out the front door and up the steps to the street. When I got there I yelled 'hey! leave her alone!'
The boyfriend replied, 'why? do you want some of this?'
In my mind I thought, "no", but my mind and my head miscommunicated and "no" came out as "Bring it; I want the whole thing." I don't know why I said that because he was huge.
He said, "Come on!" and motioned towards me, while he himself was moving away from me off down the street pushing his girlfriend in front of him.
I asked him, "Where you going? Why are you walking away?" This repeated several times and I continued to follow the couple at about 20 yards as they continued to drift down the street. We went a couple blocks and they continued to gradually ease away.

Finally, when it was apparent that the guy wasn't going to back up his talk [and we had drifted a couple blocks] I told him that I was going to call the police on him for hitting his girlfriend. He responded that she deserved it because she had forgotten where they had parked the car earlier that night before they went out to a party. I replied that she didn't and I restated that I was going to call the cops. At that point, they hurried down the street in the opposite direction.
I hurried back to the house and called the police and reported the incident, the location and also described the couple.
The police took it from there.

So for those of you wondering, I went all in.

the value of a name...

A friend of mine, Jeff, came into town last week and I had the opportunity to catch up with him. We grabbed some lunch together. As we were leaving Jeff ran into someone that he hadn't seen for three years. Jeff initiated the conversation and called the guy by his name. I watched as the guy was amazed at how Jeff had remembered his name from three years ago. The guy was so taken off guard by the fact that someone would remember his name that he really didn't say much the rest of the conversation other than how impressed he was that Jeff still knew his name.
Personally, I'm not too good with names and I think sometimes I use that as an excuses not to learn or remember names, but it is the little things that impact people the most.
Jeff, you motivated me to get better at remembering names and little details about people. Thanks for your example!

What's in your hands....

This morning I was looking at a website that one of my friends, Billy Williams recommended and I downloaded a talk by a guy named Crawford Loritts. I've never heard of this pastor but I listened and I was extremely motivated by it. Working with students one of the questions that we are always asking is what are we building into and modeling for the next generation [this generation]? What are you doing to build into those who are coming behind you and also what are you doing to honor those who have gone ahead to live in a godly way and to motivate you on your spiritual journey?

Here is the link to the vodcast: http://theresurgence.com/vodcast
The title is Passing the Torch

Enjoy

Flaming Pot

Things that you don't see everyday:

Walking through my neighborhood a couple of days ago I saw smoke coming from a front porch of a particular house. It was billowing out from under the roof. As I got closer I could see that it wasn't a bbq gone wrong;it was a flaming flower pot. I had a decision to make because it was about 5:00 in the morning. Do I risk the chance of waking up someone I don't know and warning them that their porch is on fire? I figured that was worth the risk.

What risks in life have you found are worth it?

advice...

my wife and I recently found out that we are going to be parents. Its exciting! We have been getting all types of congratulations from people. That has been awesome, but then reality hits and we don't know anything about raising kids. We are open to any advice or suggestions that parents would be willing to disclose to us. For those of you that have children what advice would you give to future parents?

april fools day....

Here are my top three April fools day jokes:

3. The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest: In 1957 a new show announced the a mild winter had not killed the dreaded spaghetti weevil and so there was a surplus in the Swiss speghetti harvest that year and so you could call and get your very own Spaghetti tree. People called asked how to grow their own trees.

2. In 1998 Buger King launch the "left handed burger". The request for the new sandwhich was incredible, people even asked for it counterpart the "right handed burger" Need I say more

1. In 1985 Sport Illustrated released the news that the Mets had acquired a pitcher by the name of Sidd Finch. His fastball reached tops of 168 mph. Mets' fans bought it. Long live Sidd Finch!!

check out the top 100 hoax of April fools day at: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/

The NIT

The National Invitational Tournament: It is amazing how the NIT used to be the tournament that teams wanted to get into and now it is considered the second option for teams that don't make it into the NCAA tournament. Isn't that interesting how things change over time.
I'm trying to think of some other things that over time people have changed how they view them. I'm stuck. Writer's block. I could use some help here.