Just leave Britney Alone!

I was thinking that it is about time that we turn the corner in my blogging posts and start tackling some of the issues of culture, and religion, taking a step outside of my immediate bubble of life.

Lets start by discussing the one person that really doesn't require any further discussion as she has been covered by so many press releases in the past year that a library could be dedicated entirely to her exploits.

My thoughts on the Britney debacle actually resonate with an oddly popular guy pleading to the masses to "just leave Britney alone", a young devotee named Chris Crocker who by some strange measure of fascination also has received his own 15 minutes of fame on the popular viral video site, www.youtube.com.

Our fascination with the pop princess begins with our personal insecurities and sense of inadequacy that we all have at some level...whether we want to admit it or not. Seeing someone at the height of her career crash down with the force of Zeus tossing a lightning bolt from Olympus gives so many of us a sense of gratification and perverted justice. Riding the scales of justice is most enjoyed when our side seems to be so elevated and lofty to those with whom we are measured.

So, like Chris Crocker I do wish we would just leave her alone. I don't plan on video taping myself in a room bathed with Britney pictures, but I will echo his sentiment.

However, I'd like to take Chris's statements a step further. Let's not leave her alone to continue in her self-deprecating spiral of disaster and self destruction. Can't we off her something else? Can't we offer her anything more than flash photography, sound bites on Dr. Phil, or laughing at her most recent fender-bender?

All of us are offered a measure of love that is unmeasurable, and acceptance from the One who has endured the worst of persecution. It is my true hope that someone somewhere can present her with an image of Christ which she will recognize as the path for her freedom, a voice that speaks to the hurt and pain, and escape for a heart that obviously languishes in the ill community of Hollywood-land.

I am not even a fan of Britney's music, however I do think she has talent. I am however a fan of the hard pressed, perplexed, persecuted, and the struck down. There is an answer who will keep her from being crushed, out of despair, keep her from being forsaken, and not destroyed. The answers she is seeking is still out there, and isn't found in Kabbalah, Hinduism, Humanism, or any other form of revelation through personal works.

I will pray for her from my little corner here in South Carolina, unknowing of her personally, but feeling for a fellow person with struggles and hoping that she will find not just help, but the Helper.

Are you willing to pray too? Let me know your thoughts...