Noblesse Oblige

What is a celebrity? I have spent many years thinking that Christians are out to take down our country and that celebrities are just rich people in our world that don’t care about the poor. This is not true and the truth here can actually be very very much the opposite if you look closely.

To me a celebrity is a person that takes a responsible public stand and can stand in the light and endure attention from the masses, or perhaps the “paparazzi”. Perhaps they are heroes. Celebrities entertain us with their books, with their journalism, their visual creations, with their acting. These are gifts that they are sharing. We are “same the men of anger and the women if the page.” -Indigo Girls. I also have a few people in my life that are my personal celebrities. They have lived through trauma, sexual and physical abuse, they have endured the world and the cruelties that can be dished out upon is. These people are no more “high” in God’s eyes than the people writing the books or starring in the movies. And art;  TV, movies and books change us. They affect us, they change us. We need them.

I do not live in the 1500’s and I am grateful. My life is not at risk of being ended and terminated for practicing the beliefs I follow, no matter what they look like. I no longer refer to myself as a Christian, and I do not choose to identify as a Witch either. I practice a huge variety of beliefs gathered from my travels and studies of many many different faiths and cultures in our huge, diverse and colorful world.

Perhaps I will be a celebrity some day and able to make a larger impact on this world. I want to thank all of the doctors and nurses, actors, writers, journalists, investors and politicians that are working very hard to make this world a better place. You are good, you are our celebrities. Let’s take back this world and unite on a common mission to speak for the people. We also are the people. When we speak our truth we heal, we not only heal others, we heal ourselves.