So usually I like to do "topics" on particular days and I had usually done some thing faith related on Wednesday and something more pop culture related on Tuesday. Well that is switched at least for this week. I saw this clip this morning and it is really too good to pass up. Besides I wrote something that was faith related last night.
On this mornings edition of "Daytime In No Time" on Yahoo! they had a clip from the Good Morning America's interview with Heidi Montag about her recent plastic surgeries. That's right, not her recent plastic surgery, singular, but rather surgeries, plural. As in 10 "procedures" in a 10 hour span on one day. That's right, 10 surgeries in 10 hours in 1 days time. Yet as she said in the interview she isn't addicted to it. And besides, she really has only had two plastic surgeries: one about 3 years ago and then one a few weeks ago that happened to be 10 separate things. I don't know about anyone else, but if I go in for some kind of surgery and they do things to multiple parts of me while in there, I count it as two surgeries. Even if they do them at the same time, I would think that they would count as separate things. Then again I've never had plastic surgery, so maybe the math is just different for them. No longer is it 10>1 like I remember learning in elementary, but instead in plastic surgery circles it is 10=1. I wonder if you could get them to think that way when it comes to the billing too? That would be nice. I don't see that happening.
All in all the thing that got me the most from the clip of the interview was Montag's answer to this question: "Triple D is big enough, that I wasn't pretty enough. What kind of message does that send to young girls?" And what was Heidi Montag's answer? "Well my main message is that beauty is really within." Seriously? Within what? The plastic surgeon's office as the Daytime In No Time hostess quipped? I mean for real, how can you go in to a place have 10 "procedures" done to tuck, augment, and reduce parts of you and then say that your message is really that beauty is found within? Beauty is really within: the breast implants within, the coligen within, and the botox within. That's like John Dillinger claiming that hard work is the best way to earn a living and make money, after he had robbed all the banks. Who is going to really take that as the message? It seems that the message is something more like "If you want to be thought of as pretty, have some work done to change what you don't like." It is vanity of the highest accord it seems to me. But this is the culture and society that we live in, God help us. Is it any wonder that so many young men and ladies have issues with self-image and self esteem? When this is the message they are getting? Beauty is really about what's within, but if you want people to notice what's within, you need to do something about what is without. Peace and love y'all
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Proof of Life
Have you ever known that person that was all talk about stuff? You probably know the kind of person that I'm referring to here. It's the person that is more than happy to TELL you all about what great things they have done or can do, and yet you've never actually seen them DO these things that they are talking about being able to do. It can be pretty tiresome and annoying. After all, we want proof that they can do what they are saying they can do.
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (that's the 2nd book in case you didn't know that) there is a character by the name of Gilderoy Lockhart. Lockhart is a very famous, very good looking wizard. He has published numerous books about the things that he has done and on top of that he talks a big game ALL THE TIME. He is always telling various teachers what a great wizard he is and making wild claims about things. The only problem is that when push comes to shove, Lockhart is exposed for what he was: a fake. He has been able to talk big and fool many people, but when evidence was called for, when it was time to back up all the claims, Lockhart's facade crumbled.
The same holds true for us as Christ followers. It's one thing for us to talk a big game about following Jesus and being a Christian. But when it comes down to it, when it is time for us to go beyond the words, then what will people see? Will they see someone who actually lives out the faith that they claim to have? Or will they find a person that is a shell of what they have claimed to be? John the Baptist seems to have stated it best in Matthew 3:8. He said to PROVE by the way you LIVE that youthat you have this faith, not just by the words you say.
The Pharisees and the "religious" leaders that John was speakking to talked a big game when it came to faith in God. But what they said didn't match what they were doing. Is that what people will see in us? Or will they see an open, true, genuine faith that gives proof that we have turned from sin and are going hard after God? Peace and Love y'all.
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (that's the 2nd book in case you didn't know that) there is a character by the name of Gilderoy Lockhart. Lockhart is a very famous, very good looking wizard. He has published numerous books about the things that he has done and on top of that he talks a big game ALL THE TIME. He is always telling various teachers what a great wizard he is and making wild claims about things. The only problem is that when push comes to shove, Lockhart is exposed for what he was: a fake. He has been able to talk big and fool many people, but when evidence was called for, when it was time to back up all the claims, Lockhart's facade crumbled.
The same holds true for us as Christ followers. It's one thing for us to talk a big game about following Jesus and being a Christian. But when it comes down to it, when it is time for us to go beyond the words, then what will people see? Will they see someone who actually lives out the faith that they claim to have? Or will they find a person that is a shell of what they have claimed to be? John the Baptist seems to have stated it best in Matthew 3:8. He said to PROVE by the way you LIVE that youthat you have this faith, not just by the words you say.
The Pharisees and the "religious" leaders that John was speakking to talked a big game when it came to faith in God. But what they said didn't match what they were doing. Is that what people will see in us? Or will they see an open, true, genuine faith that gives proof that we have turned from sin and are going hard after God? Peace and Love y'all.
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