Torn & Broken - Hope Is Coming

Here's a blog I wrote in February this year on Facebook. Came across it today and decided to add it to this. :)

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Friday, February 6, 2009 at 5:07pm


I came across a song that gave me chills yesterday.

It was addressed to Britney Spears, and I have a hard time finding the accurate description of this song to fully portray the sincerity and compassion in it.

Here's a link to a video with the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Q_wVfGAfA
Scratch that... the video was removed.
Go to Bebo Norman's myspace to hear the "Britney" song:
http://www.myspace.com/bebonorman

I agree with EACH word in that song.

Now, I'm willing to bet everyone will react to that video in one of the three ways I'm listing below:
-"It's not my problem. That's Hollywood for you." - Detached
-"She brought all this trouble upon herself. She deserved it." - Unfazed
-"That's unfortunate and someone needs to help her." - Sympathetic

I remember when all the controversy of Britney was all over the news, and it seemed that many people loved to pick apart every failure in her life.

It bothered me so much- the callousness I saw.

Is there anyone else who's heart went out to that broken girl?

The point I'm making is it's not just about Britney. It's about the millions of people that go through that, and receive the same callousness. If we can't show compassion to a celebrity, and just to our friends and people we know, how will this world change for the better?

It's so easy to sit back in our comfortable lives and look over our mistakes, the pain we might cause others and, instead, focus on a star who is having trouble while the whole world gets to see.

Forget that you may have just gotten fed up with your kids, friend, or spouse and yelled at them.

Or you've sat at the McDonald's for 10 minutes in the drive-thru line and gave that person at the window an earful of all their failures for making you wait.

Or the fact that so many things keep piling up in your life and you are depressed beyond belief yet no one knows and you are not sure you even want to live another day.

Or you just divorced your spouse and things are turning ugly because you keep getting called back to court hearings.

Life happens to us all, and when we are going through it, the last thing we want is for someone to pick us apart for each mistake and failure.

The one thing we need is love and help through those times... even the celebrities need that, believe or not.

I'm glad to have my source of love and help through Jesus Christ. I've found that because my source is through Him, I am able to give it away to those who need it.

I love how a girl on Flickr described my Love of my life:
"That's what I love about Jesus. The most broken, the most hopeless, the most "irredeemable" in the world's eyes, he delights in. He loves to stop by. To stoop down. To look them in the eye. To take their chin in his hand and say, "It's OK. I'm here." And then, out of the wreckage of their lives, to make something very beautiful.

That's my God. That's the one we celebrate rose again on Easter Sunday. That's the one who's raising other lives from the dead, every day of the week.

That's Jesus."
-plouisa on Flickr

Every single person needs that, whether they know it or not.

Every single person needs that acceptance...
that love...
that guidance...
that help...
that hope...