Exit 159 GS Parkway - Saddle Brook Jesus

Except for the occasional flood, not much ever happened in Saddle Brook since it was inhabited in 1716. All that changed when in late 2004 Gary Brolsma sat at his PC in his bedroom to lip-sinc the first Numa Numa video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o

800 million views later, we have:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7si10ipel0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ysz8HqoE-k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1M-sWWonjo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXleQldbFFE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOor0OLIbFc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAfPzUy8Gz0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3med-8reH8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puVmKfCwb4M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHJjY0Lj1oA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKcm8oPqs4k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5FXD56LGnY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pHShKhCnjY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwGCaxJP5AI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aMaAM_B37s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_pMN-R2IGQ&feature=related

In addition to one very addicting video, Saddle Brook is home to one of the few Walmarts in North Jersey. This retailer caused quite a stir last Christmas as it offered Christian toys during the holiday season. Well here in Saddle Brook, this Walmart has been quietly selling Jesus candles since, well, forever. For less than a cup of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, the light can shine through the Sacred Heart of Jesus candle and the Jesus Crucifixion candle. For twenty cents less than Jesus, one can pick up the Lady of Guadeloupe.

I wonder if Margaret Mary Alaoque could have ever imagined that the vision of Jesus she saw in 1671 would be retailing for $1.55?

"I could plainly see His heart, pierced and bleeding, yet there were flames, too, coming from it and a crown of thorns around it. He told me to behold His heart which so loved humanity. Then He seemed to take my very heart from me and place it there in His heart. In return He gave me back part of His flaming heart."

Beautiful words, really. I would have never thought to literally paint the exact picture and put it on a candle and sell it a Walmart but hey.

John 3:"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son …..whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."