Some months ago, when Ms. Spears was crashing, I wrote a bit about her as a prodigal daughter - about the prayer that she was, perhaps, turning away from the destructive and to the beautiful.
Last night she "returned" to the MTV Music Awards in Las Vegas.
It went... poorly. Here is a link if you want to see it.
She forgot to dance, forgot to sing and wasn't quite the old "Britney" brand. I watched it this morning on YouTube and couldn't get past the first few seconds without feeling so sad for her. Around her in the hyper-sexual staging were writhing women and then writhing men and then combinations of the two and there she was on stage looking like someone waking up in the middle of a nightmare.
Perhaps this mother of two, perhaps this woman who has been to the bottom, perhaps she woke up last night and realized in the middle of her performance that she didn't want any part of what she doing.
She is still the prodigal daughter wandering her way back to the spiritual home she once knew just as we are all prodigal children stumbling our way home.
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Thank you, David, for not judging Britney Spears. That was, indeed, a painful thing to watch last night. God has an agenda and he's always working toward that agenda. His agenda is restoration and wholeness and I would never dare think I need this less than Britney Spears. We do not know her heart, but I too believe she is deciding she no longer wants a part of what she's doing.
I know I'm splitting hairs here, but I have to disagree with this observation. A prodigal, by definition, is someone wasteful or extravagant. Ms. Spears fits that definition. Also, the ability to have children does not necessarialy mean you are a mother. As far as her performance goee, from what I've read (I did not actually see it), she strikes me as someone reluctancy participating in the dog and pony show that is the music industry. The greysuites have money invested in an upcoming album, and she is contractually obligated to promote. Does not have to like it, but she has to do it.
She very much strikes me as having embraced the hedonist lifestyle by both actions and words, to the point of self destruction. It's a sad situation to watch someone so young piss their life away, but she does not strike me as someone with any interest in finding some level of self respect, let alone her spiritual home. You can't fix something if you don't think it's broken.
Phil
I don't think there's any need to kick Britney while she's down. After all, giving a salacious (and just plain bad) concert performance is the least of her "prodigality."
This poor woman has no education, no spiritual or intellectual tools, nothing to fall back on except her displays of sexuality. She has been used by relatives, employees, friends and we are all fascinated with her fall.
Our fascination is perhaps worse than anything she has done. We are as addicted to watching such nonsense as she might be to alcohol or drugs. One addiction feeds the other.
I watched only a few seconds of the performance - it was too painful - it was tragic and we are feeding it.
God bless her and bring her to peace.
At least she hasn't (yet) done the Michael Vick thing and dragged Jesus into it.
Some of these stars that suddenly find God remind me of a car I once saw sitting in the middle of an intersection after it had plowed into a light pole - the front license plate read: "God Is My Co-Pilot."
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