The pre-ceremony red carpet coverage of the 2013 Academy Awards is on the t.v. as I write this. I watched the above video as Kristen Chenoweth interviewed Hollywood starlets about their designer gowns in the background. Interesting juxtaposition. Glamour vs grief. Stardom vs sorrow. Power vs pain.
Certainly Kristen Chenoweth knows nothing of self-doubt. Look at those perfectly sculpted arms.
Jennifer Lawrence has probably never been lonely. She's funny and witty and talented and charming.
Reese Witherspoon has no idea what helplessness and hopelessnes feel like. She's one of the wealthiest women in the world.
Maybe. Maybe not.
I'm leaning towards maybe not.
Marilyn Monroe is quoted as saying: “I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
May we be sensitive to the inner struggles of those around us. Let us remind them that they are never completely alone. And when it is us that is suffering, may we remind ourselves that there is One who suffered before us, who knows our heartache better than anyone and is there to offer us hope.
"The Son of Man hath descended below [it] all. Art thou greater than He?" (D&C 122:7)
Happy Sunday,
Sarah
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