The rolling stone has left the building.

We all want people to recognize us for the things that we accomplish in life, but what if we are recognized for the wrong reasons. I'm not talking about making the nightly news for some heinous crime but being recognized for something that we don't have any right to be seen for.

Imagine a man or a woman walking down the street who has just achieved one of their most important goals in life, I don't know, lets say they just climbed mount Everest in record time but they have no desire to be recognized for the cereal they just ate this morning.

People are fascinated by greatness, or celebrity, but what we fail to realize is the process involved that brought that person into the public eye in the first place.

I would not want to be recognized just for the sake of being famous, but I wouldn't mind being recognized for the right reasons. It just blows me away the importance this society places on the rich and the famous as if it is some goal that justifies your humanity. We would all agree that we are all human wouldn't we, so why don't we celebrate what we can accomplish not in our own strength, but what God can and is doing through us.

One proud man said to the other, do you like my painting art? And the other proud man said "art? I thought you were painting me! I am the art, just look at me, I am God's gift to woman kind."

this is mike.

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