Poor Harry…… part deux.

Poor Harry…… part deux.  Alas, it wasn’t enough to have to write about Harry last week after it was reported that he was cavorting with members of the opposite sex by the pool. Then he goes and loses all of his clothes in  a strip billiard game and his friends post the pictures they took.  Harry, what are we going to do with you?  Of course, some of the news reports on that same day were “Celine Dion poses topless”, “Kidman shows backside in pic” and “Lady Gaga bares breasts in video clip” and nobody really seemed to care about that, but maybe that’s what is expected.  Well maybe not from Celine but from the rest of them. 

It appears the Royal Family is not amused. But Harry is not the first Royal to act badly, Mummy and Daddy weren’t saints, nor will he be the last. 

If you follow the stories there are all kinds of opinions about what the Prince needs to do. Some people think he needs to grow up, others suggest that he needs to act more responsible and remember who he is, while others think he’s doing a fine job. 

But what Harry needs more than anything is Jesus, then maybe billiard lessons and better friends.  Have a great week and remember: To see what is really possible, you will have to attempt the impossible.

Remember who you are

Poor Harry.  The headline said it all “British royal Prince Harry has put his grandfather's ill health to one side to go on a wild holiday.”  But did it really say it all?  Granted Harry’s grandfather, Prince Phillip, was in the hospital and Harry was in Las Vegas, but so what?  Phillip wasn’t dying, he was being treated for a bladder infection.  And Harry was on leave before returning to his military duties in Afghanistan.  The article went on to accuse the young Prince of being seen in a pair of Bermuda shorts, shades and a hat…. gasp!  And was also seen, and I quote,  “laughing and playing with a beach ball, before chatting to a bevy of beautiful, bikini-clad girls.”  Sounds like normal behaviour for a healthy 28-year-old heterosexual male. 

The problem is this, the world and the media expect more from the man who is third in line for the throne, fairly or not.  That’s the price of being royalty. 

In the same way the world and the media will always hold Christ followers to a higher standard than others.  And that’s ok, because God does as well.  A perk of following Jesus is that you are a child of the King, the price is that you are expected to act like it.  

 Have a great week and remember: To see what is really possible, you will have to attempt the impossible.

Cheaters never win. . . well maybe sometimes

He cheated! So What?  At least that seems to be the consensus.   During the Olympics, South African swimmer Cameron van der Burgh, broke the world record on his way to winning Gold in the 100M breaststroke last week.  However, video footage shows that van der Burgh took three “dolphin kicks” at the beginning of the race instead of the permitted one “dolphin kick”.  The swimmer didn’t deny what he did, instead, he justified and rationalized it.  In one interview the South African is quoted as saying: “If you're not doing it, you're falling behind. It's not obviously — shall we say — the moral thing to do, but I'm not willing to sacrifice my personal performance and four years of hard work for someone that is willing to do it and get away with it,”  
If it’s not the “shall we say ---moral thing to do” then it must be the “shall we say---immoral thing to do.” 
The hope of the world is that more people will chose to do what is right than what is easy. And so, our responsibility as Christ Followers will always be to live to a higher standard as an example of what can be instead of what is. Have a great week and remember: To see what is really possible, you will have to attempt the impossible.

De-evolving

Sometimes I suspect that if Darwin was alive today he would amend his theory to state that human beings are actually de-evolving. I read an article a while ago about the pitcher on a high school baseball team who was hit in the head by a line drive. Which actually might explain the rest of the story, Daniel Hannant has filed a lawsuit against the makers of Louisville Sluggers, claiming that the company's aluminium bats are "unreasonably dangerous" to pitchers because they are designed to hit baseballs very, very hard. Hello, earth to Daniel. Give your head a shake and see what that ball rattled loose. The point of baseball is to hit the baseball very, very hard. While baseball shouldn’t be as dangerous as, say bungee jumping, there are some dangers involved, like getting hit in the head with the ball.

 We want to live a life that is consequence free, but that is impossible. Everything we do has consequences, a consequence of being human is that we sin, and a consequence of sin is hell. However the great news is that God was willing to take the consequences of our actions on Himself and forgive our sins; however it only works if you ask Him.

  Have a great week and remember: To see what is really possible, you will have to attempt the impossible.