{"id":7324,"date":"2013-01-15T23:51:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T23:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7324"},"modified":"2013-01-15T23:51:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T23:51:31","slug":"what-price-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7324","title":{"rendered":"What price fame?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The news this week is all about Lance Armstrong and his finally admitting to taking performance enhancing drugs after years of denial. It’s bad enough that he took the drugs, it’s worse that he lied for all these years, but even worse that he ruined the lives of others that tried to get at the truth while he was denying it. \u00a0What is it about us humans, that we will do almost anything to get attention, to be praised, honored, to have fame??!! \u00a0I was once guilty of being obsessed with getting attention and respect. I understand the need, I don’t understand sacrificing anything to get it.<\/p>\n

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Some years ago a sports team that I followed and loved, lost a game on a \u00a0last second shot. \u00a0I exploded with anger. \u00a0After I calmed down my wife ask me who was the champion two years before? \u00a0I didn’t know, two years later it didn’t matter, it probably didn’t matter three months later, but yet I was acting like it was the end of the world. \u00a0As I said that was some years ago, in recent years I’ve come to understand that following sports can really be fun because, in the end, it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t change anything about life, it’s just a game<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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I don’t think God minds us enjoying sports, and games, but I feel certain He doesn’t want them to rule our lives, He doesn’t want anything to rule our lives accept Him! \u00a0I wish Lance had admitted his actions when he was first asked about them. \u00a0I would have admired him more for that, than all those trophies.<\/p>\n

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What price are we willing to pay for things that, in the end, don’t matter anyway?<\/p>\n

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blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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