Role models.....

OK just another quick post here that I have been thinking about for 2 days now so I figured, no rush to work, coffee is hot and most of the troops are still sleeping - I have a few minutes. So I looked up Thessalonians.... enjoyed the read this morning and let me share this with you.
Its weird too that a conversation took place yesterday concerning Hollywood and Anna Nicole Smith - they know who the daddy is - the dad was announced and while watching the news - the father is jumping around like he just won the lottery. I can't help but to feel sorry for the child who was born from a drug attict mother who is since passed away - a life of camera lights and craziness - and a father who is looking at the bank account. If you really look at Hollywood - everything is upside down and I don't know what happens with these people when their lives are out there for the public to see. People need hero's and as a society we are looking at the wrong place. Hollywood changes marriages like they change their clothes - everything seems like a publicity stunt - parenting out of wed lock - parties that are wild and rehab comes next. Its just a shame we have people today, KIDS today looking up to these folks. I would like to meet someday real people who have made a difference in peoples lives. But then again I am meeting them everyday as they lead local churches - teaching in our schools - and parents who are fighting to raise their children. When the chips are down and the lights of fancy things are gone - kids go back to their roots and do what they were raised to act like and be like. Marriages are worth fighting for and doing whatever these parents can to set an example for their children to do what is right - to not just throw in the towel and start life over or walk away because things are sometimes hard and sometimes REALLY hard. We have a role model crisis in this country loved ones..... I just want to turn the TV off sometimes - even with sports players - the standards are so low today it is shameful.
We mock life by what our parents raised us to do..... that could mean so many things - what does it mean to you?

1 Thessalonians 1:6
5-6You paid careful attention to the way we lived among you, and determined to live that way yourselves. In imitating us, you imitated the Master. Although great trouble accompanied the Word, you were able to take great joy from the Holy Spirit!—taking the trouble with the joy, the joy with the trouble.