WORDS TO LIVE BY: “Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich. Be wise enough to know when to quit.” -Proverbs 23:4

Success, and how people define and pursue it, is strongly linked to their integrity. Every right-minded person wants to be successful. However, success-markers are as varied and individualized as a person’s personal taste. The means that a person implements to reach these markers will be determined not only by their skill level and work ethic, but by their personal belief system and morals.

There are many cases where a person’s impeccable work ethic, talent, and drive is not welcomed because it is accompanied by an unbending, strict moral code. This enigmatic dilemma can occur in any industry or career field. However, it is most popularly known to occur in the field of entertainment.

In a corrupt world, the entertainment industry is a standout in the sordid playing field of debauchery. Music studios and sound stages are cluttered with hollow shells missing their souls; their ambition akin to a bull in a china shop.

Within recent history, music and entertainment fans have seen the demise of legendary artists of immense talent. Some of these artists’ talents were worthy of the artistic acclaim that they received from millions of music lovers. However, we should deeply contemplate whether the industry these extraordinary creative forces participated in was worthy of their attention, presence, and their very lives.

Watching the heartless way in which Whitney Houston’s musical colleagues and self-proclaimed “friends” literally partied under her corpse should have been a wake up call for all on-lookers. What type of people would knowingly engage in festivities beneath the dead body of any fellow human being; more or less a person many of them profess to “love?” Do we as “fans” consider this behavior acceptable?

Watching the calloused behavior of the entertainment industry’s “elite” in response to Whitney Houston’s death shattered any illusions of the type of people who comprise this unfortunately often-coveted profession.

While great talent should have great ambition, there is something that is more important, and something that should be primary. Foremost, everyone should firmly know where their boundaries are and what they will, and will not, participate in. Secondly, people have to know that it is okay to be a big fish in a small pond if that pond’s waters are pure and clear, rather than putrid and turbulent. I would rather happily sing on a street corner, than to sing in arenas via a conduit created by craftily disguised devils looking to corrupt and devour.

Be careful what you pursue, how you pursue it, and what you choose to align yourself with. All the clues are there. We have been warned!

As Always,

Lots of Love,

Elsie “Starface” Law