Comments on: Getting swept up in it

By: Jenny B. Jones

Jenny B. Jones — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:33:59 +0000

LOVED Blossom. Great parallel.

By: May @ Anne and May

May @ Anne and May — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:56:36 +0000

I’m just like Blossom. When really tragic stuff happens to me, I don’t cry and I don’t cry and I don’t cry. And then this silliest, most unrelated thing will happen and suddenly, inexplicably, I’m sobbing.

The MJ thing made me feel this way too. Awesome post.

By: Serenity

Serenity — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:28:07 +0000

Charity, you did not! You are good.

By: Charity

Charity — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:38:23 +0000

I told Ryan this is exactly what you would say! Wow, I’m good. I love your view on celebrity craziness.

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:18:34 +0000

I’m feeling sad, too, for both Farrah Fawcett’s and Michael Jackson’s families. And I like your last sentence, Serenity – about how death is always too soon, and always hurts. Thanks for that.

By: kathy

kathy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:00:10 +0000

I appreciate the way you explained why a passing moment in a movie can unleash all these emotions in me. That makes so much sense.

By: Serenity

Serenity — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:58:42 +0000

Yep, Sarah. And it had the cutest intro. And – ahem – JOEY LAWRENCE. :) You know who he is, right? Oh gosh. You probably don’t.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:37:08 +0000

Yesterday was really “one of those days.” Remember when Princess Diana died? I was pretty young and I didn’t understand the significance but I’ll always remember that”feeling.” Like everywhere in the world, people you didn’t even know were also stopping to think about their lives and how they wanted it to count and how they wished people never died.
It also felt like that during Sep 11.
Okay and I apologize in advance for my ignorance….Blossom? Is that a TV show?

By: Serenity

Serenity — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:35:34 +0000

Tracy, I agree. I almost wrote “(and even the Farrah Fawcets)” in my list of people who die, because I said that very thing last night – how dwarfed the news of her death was by the news of his. That probably was very hard on those close to her.

And, Paul, what a beautiful contribution to my post. Thanks for writing that. I’ve felt very sad for him as well. I wore a purple version of his Thriller jacket when I was in third grade and always had a strong fondness for him. “He obviously had a gift from God and a love for people.” That is so true.

I’m off to a Women of Faith conference soon. I hope more people will write about this. If I don’t respond, it’s because I’m on the road. But I will definitely read all your comments tonight!

By: Paul Nickerson

Paul Nickerson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:23:40 +0000

Jacki and I watched ABC’s special on Michael Jackson last night. How ineffably sad it made me to see what the maelstrom of popularity did to his spirit. He seemed like a lost little boy in those interviews—a little boy that was effectively shut off from experiencing the truth about God by the hounding of people who wanted something for themselves out of him. He obviously had a gift from God and a love for people. Only God knows if there was a loving communication going on between the two of them, but it is just so sad when such a gifted communicator is diverted from being fully devoted to God. Oh that people might think of the God who gifted him and be grateful to the God of perfect gifts as a tribute to his inevitable death.