I am now sickened every time I see that headline and I just feel such compassion for this young woman. She was thrown into the public eye at a young age and was pulled in every direction by someone who needed her to make money for them. She lived and died (metaphorically speaking) through an all-too-public relationship then, breakup with another young star, Justin Timberlake.
She said on Primetime with Dianne Sawyer in 2003 that all she ever really wanted was to be a wife and mom and live a simple life. She spoke of how she hoped to meet a good man and settle down within a couple of years. She spoke about how the world wanted her to be a good example to their children. I am in no way condoning anything she has done but is this really her responsibility? I thought this was the parents' job.
She became a wife and a mom shortly after but that wasn't good enough for the world. Now she was deemed an unfit parent and a nuisance to society. The man she married wasn't good enough. She got pregnant too soon after the first, she put her career on hold, she staged a comeback to quickly, she divorced the man the world should she should never have married and now she is the bad guy for it. TV anchors laugh at her and photographers take picture of her even as she leaves in an ambulance. To those who would do this to her: Are you people human? Do you feel any compassion? What do you want from this one woman; her fame, her fortune, her life?
She has been hissed at, spit at, and one public official even said she would shoot her if she had been given the chance! She was expected to be a savior to the country's adolescent teen girls and was chastised when she didn't fit the mold the world was looking for. Everything she has ever done has been critiqued and ridiculed. The child has no life. She is someone who everyone else wants a piece of.
What started this rant in my mind?
I went to check my email today and that is when I saw this picture. This girl has to hold her children through a magazine. She has to touch their face through news print and before anybody says she deserves it let me remind you that none of deserved what Christ did for us on that cross. We all deserved to die because of our sin but He loved us enough to not allow that to happen.
Has Britney made bad choices? Yes! Who hasn't?
I'm quite sure at this point most tabloids have succeeded in making her feel like an unfit parent and now she probably believes what has been said all along. She is self destructing because she does not like herself. She is no longer that sweet, fun, coming-of-age girl we all knew and loved years ago.
Hollywood and tabloids created this person, the one she is trying to escape from.
I for one and tired of this happening to people. I commit to pray for her, her babies, and the rest of her family on a daily basis. She does not deserve this. She can't walk into a store without hundreds of flashes going off in her face. Her photographs sell for thousands of dollars and the more controversial the higher the price they are willing to pay.
She is in the hospital once again. She was rushed there last night and is going through a mental evaluation. All I can do is think, "God, please take care of her and please send people to her who truly love her and not just want something from her. She needs friends. She needs you, God!"
If you would like to commit to praying for Britney please let me know. No one deserves to go through this. God loves her just as much as He loves us. His heart breaks with every day that passes and she is still in this mess.
Hang in there, Britney. Hang in there.
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Stumble it!
Since my boys have a bad habit of leaving the door open during private time I decided to use that opportunity to find the culprit and at the same time teach them a lesson about not shutting the door. So, I began to follow them anytime it looked like they might be going for a visit with the porcelain throne.
