Please help!
Hallo, all you lovely people! I'm re-posting this from my friend Bryant McGill's blog. If you can do anything at all, whether it's practical help, or even just passing this on to as many people as possible, please do so. Your time and energies will be eternally appreciated.
Best wishes, all,
Rachael.... ♥
Dear MySpace Friends World Wide,
I am on the Cover of the Wall Street Journal Today, and it means nothing. This message means more, and what you do next means everything.
First of all I am letting you all know that I was the subject, with my friend Jim Karol, of a front-page cover story in the Wall Street Journal today. In the world's largest international newspaper, sitting on racks in Starbucks, bookstores, paper racks and libraries around the globe is a photo of my humble face, which accompanies the story; a story about myspace.com and celebrities. While I am excited about the article and my good fortune, something heavier and darker is weighing on my heart, and I hope you will help me.
While I am glad for myself, I want this press to really count for something more than just me and my insignificant goals. This is as good as classic press gets. This is the biggest press I have ever had. They even have a caricature drawing of me in the traditions WSJ format. I am honored by this once in a lifetime happening, but while I am enjoying my fortune, a family I know about is teetering on the edge of homelessness and utter ruin.
A few days ago, a friend of mine and Jim's contacted us. His name is Jim Labriola, the actor and comedian from Tim Allen's show, Home Improvement. He shared a story of heartache with us that deeply effected me. Since that call I have been feverishly working around the clock with Jim to do something to convert this blessing of an article from a shallow victory for me to a deep blessing to someone in desperate need. In order to make this work I need you.
The family I mentioned has a son, who was parallelized for life by a hit and run criminal, who fled the scene, leaving him to die, and then fled the country. The family, of limited means, has been left with mountains of medical debt, and a son with a broken body who needs their full attention. There are young children at home and all of them are just one step from the streets. ONE STEP FROM THE DAMN STREETS!
Please make this day count. You all know me. Please do not allow this day to go by with a hollow victory weighing in on my heart, as a family such as this suffers so profoundly. I spoke to the father yesterday on the phone, and this former Marine cried, and sobbed to me for 30 minutes. He hyperventilated and shuddered for many minutes trying to utter the gut wrenching words, My firstborn son. I was humbled to tears.
I Bryant McGill, am now begging you. If you were here, or I there, God as my witness, I would get down on my hands and knees, and beg you to help this family. I am begging you now. Please show me that people care. Please, I am begging you to show me that people can make a difference. Please validate every high and noble thought I believe in my heart about the goodness of people. Please send these people money, checks, gift certificates, food, cards, well-wishes, cloths, and anything that can be sold. They need money and lots of it. They need tens and tens of thousands of dollars. If people ignore my plea I will be devastated. I refuse to believe people would let a family like this down. You must help these people. Please, I beg you.
Please help, and work all day and all night if you have to-- posting this bulletin all over MySpace. Do not relent. Do this to reaffirm to yourself who you are inside. Tell your friends and have them post. Post all day and all night. Send messages to everyone you know. You can send 450 messages a day, so send every one of them. Call every friend on the phone. Do everything in your human power. Tell every contact you have to do the same as you. Me, Jim, Mike, Rachael and Jimmy have been working around the clock 20 hours a day preparing materials and websites so that this family could be rescued because of this article. I am exhausted and sick to my stomach. I am sick with fear that no one will help. I am trying to have faith in the goodness of people. If this day goes by, and you all do not rally behind this, I will be so depressed I don't think I will know what to do. Please make this the most talked about MySpace event in history. Let this amazing press turn into something good. This family deserves to be rescued. Me and my friends can only do so much.
Please make this day meaningful for me, and meaningful for you, and meaningful for people struggling for meaning at their very core. Set aside your own concerns, and be concerned for this family. Work all day and night with me getting the word out. Silence the cynics and critics with your defiant insistence that the World be made a better place, and NOW! Take all this time you would normally use playing and chatting on MySpace, and do something powerful and meaningful that will last forever. If you do not have time make it in the way you would want others to do if this were your child, or brother or parents.
There are instructions on the bottom of this site that Jim and I have built for the family explaining where and what to send. Repost this bulletin with links. Post Blogs. Post in Groups. Post in Message Boards. Post it anywhere you can. Post it as if your life depended on it, because someone's life does.
Include this plea and the links in everything you do.
Here is a letter I received from the father FIVE minutes ago:
Good morning my brother it was a pleasure talking and sharing my heart to your wife. I thank you both more than you will ever know. I know I get very emotional at times but that is who I am. Even as I write this to you I cry because you [bryant mcgill] took time out from I know an extreamly buisy life to help a man you dont even know. I pray that GOD will bless you and yours abundantly and above all that you could ever imagine, And I want you to know that I am here also IF YOU EVER NEED ANYTHING TO LAUGH CRY OR JUST TO TALK. I am not very educated but I have tried to searve my country and fellow man. I know that in worldly eyes I may be a failure, but I can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens me. And my life is just beginning. I can see light where there was none, and love and peace that gives me hope that I may be a blessing to others as you and others are blessing me and my family. Thanks again --sorry for writing on and on my cell number is xxx-xxx-xxxx I look foward talking.to you...phil
The Family In Need
www.Robert.NeedsHelpNow.com
www.GiveYourself.com
Celebrity Group The Article is About
MySpace Verified Celebrities Group
My MySpace & Jim's MySpace
www.myspace.com/bryantmcgill
www.myspace.com/jimkarol
Please leave messages of support to the family, and public commitments to help in the comments of this blog. Millions of people around the world are watching and reading.
Namaste...
Your humble servant,
Bryant McGill
Best wishes, all,
Rachael.... ♥
Dear MySpace Friends World Wide,
I am on the Cover of the Wall Street Journal Today, and it means nothing. This message means more, and what you do next means everything.
First of all I am letting you all know that I was the subject, with my friend Jim Karol, of a front-page cover story in the Wall Street Journal today. In the world's largest international newspaper, sitting on racks in Starbucks, bookstores, paper racks and libraries around the globe is a photo of my humble face, which accompanies the story; a story about myspace.com and celebrities. While I am excited about the article and my good fortune, something heavier and darker is weighing on my heart, and I hope you will help me.
While I am glad for myself, I want this press to really count for something more than just me and my insignificant goals. This is as good as classic press gets. This is the biggest press I have ever had. They even have a caricature drawing of me in the traditions WSJ format. I am honored by this once in a lifetime happening, but while I am enjoying my fortune, a family I know about is teetering on the edge of homelessness and utter ruin.
A few days ago, a friend of mine and Jim's contacted us. His name is Jim Labriola, the actor and comedian from Tim Allen's show, Home Improvement. He shared a story of heartache with us that deeply effected me. Since that call I have been feverishly working around the clock with Jim to do something to convert this blessing of an article from a shallow victory for me to a deep blessing to someone in desperate need. In order to make this work I need you.
The family I mentioned has a son, who was parallelized for life by a hit and run criminal, who fled the scene, leaving him to die, and then fled the country. The family, of limited means, has been left with mountains of medical debt, and a son with a broken body who needs their full attention. There are young children at home and all of them are just one step from the streets. ONE STEP FROM THE DAMN STREETS!
Please make this day count. You all know me. Please do not allow this day to go by with a hollow victory weighing in on my heart, as a family such as this suffers so profoundly. I spoke to the father yesterday on the phone, and this former Marine cried, and sobbed to me for 30 minutes. He hyperventilated and shuddered for many minutes trying to utter the gut wrenching words, My firstborn son. I was humbled to tears.
I Bryant McGill, am now begging you. If you were here, or I there, God as my witness, I would get down on my hands and knees, and beg you to help this family. I am begging you now. Please show me that people care. Please, I am begging you to show me that people can make a difference. Please validate every high and noble thought I believe in my heart about the goodness of people. Please send these people money, checks, gift certificates, food, cards, well-wishes, cloths, and anything that can be sold. They need money and lots of it. They need tens and tens of thousands of dollars. If people ignore my plea I will be devastated. I refuse to believe people would let a family like this down. You must help these people. Please, I beg you.
Please help, and work all day and all night if you have to-- posting this bulletin all over MySpace. Do not relent. Do this to reaffirm to yourself who you are inside. Tell your friends and have them post. Post all day and all night. Send messages to everyone you know. You can send 450 messages a day, so send every one of them. Call every friend on the phone. Do everything in your human power. Tell every contact you have to do the same as you. Me, Jim, Mike, Rachael and Jimmy have been working around the clock 20 hours a day preparing materials and websites so that this family could be rescued because of this article. I am exhausted and sick to my stomach. I am sick with fear that no one will help. I am trying to have faith in the goodness of people. If this day goes by, and you all do not rally behind this, I will be so depressed I don't think I will know what to do. Please make this the most talked about MySpace event in history. Let this amazing press turn into something good. This family deserves to be rescued. Me and my friends can only do so much.
Please make this day meaningful for me, and meaningful for you, and meaningful for people struggling for meaning at their very core. Set aside your own concerns, and be concerned for this family. Work all day and night with me getting the word out. Silence the cynics and critics with your defiant insistence that the World be made a better place, and NOW! Take all this time you would normally use playing and chatting on MySpace, and do something powerful and meaningful that will last forever. If you do not have time make it in the way you would want others to do if this were your child, or brother or parents.
There are instructions on the bottom of this site that Jim and I have built for the family explaining where and what to send. Repost this bulletin with links. Post Blogs. Post in Groups. Post in Message Boards. Post it anywhere you can. Post it as if your life depended on it, because someone's life does.
Include this plea and the links in everything you do.
Here is a letter I received from the father FIVE minutes ago:
Good morning my brother it was a pleasure talking and sharing my heart to your wife. I thank you both more than you will ever know. I know I get very emotional at times but that is who I am. Even as I write this to you I cry because you [bryant mcgill] took time out from I know an extreamly buisy life to help a man you dont even know. I pray that GOD will bless you and yours abundantly and above all that you could ever imagine, And I want you to know that I am here also IF YOU EVER NEED ANYTHING TO LAUGH CRY OR JUST TO TALK. I am not very educated but I have tried to searve my country and fellow man. I know that in worldly eyes I may be a failure, but I can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens me. And my life is just beginning. I can see light where there was none, and love and peace that gives me hope that I may be a blessing to others as you and others are blessing me and my family. Thanks again --sorry for writing on and on my cell number is xxx-xxx-xxxx I look foward talking.to you...phil
The Family In Need
www.Robert.NeedsHelpNow.com
www.GiveYourself.com
Celebrity Group The Article is About
MySpace Verified Celebrities Group
My MySpace & Jim's MySpace
www.myspace.com/bryantmcgill
www.myspace.com/jimkarol
Please leave messages of support to the family, and public commitments to help in the comments of this blog. Millions of people around the world are watching and reading.
Namaste...
Your humble servant,
Bryant McGill
