This past week has had me thinking about where people place their priorities. Whitney Houston dies, and an entire nation mourns. Now, yes, she was a great singer and an okay actress. However, no disrespect to her family, she was just another person. So, her job was to entertain the world...but she was still just another person. She made many poor choices in life...and it is still questionable whether or not her choices caused her untimely death.
On the other hand, every day, people die while helping other people and while fighting for freedom, be it ours or that of people groups across the world.
- How often does a police officer die in the line of duty?
- How often does a fire fighter die fighting the spread of a fire, or rescuing someone from a burning building?
- How often does a soldier die on the front line...in a bombing, a raid, etc.?
- How often does a health professional die due to an incurable virus caught while helping others?
Think about it! Every day, someone in one of these professions dies doing their job...jobs that many people take for granted yet will never do themselves! So, I will secretly mourn all of these people. This will be my only post about it...I will not flood Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media with message after message. Today, in this message, for those who have already past, and those who will pass in days to come doing what they do to help the world, I say "THANK YOU" and mourn the world's loss of such great people!