What's got your attention?

What's got your attention? What do you talk about? American Idol? the Broncos? It is amazing where you will see their emblem. All fads and games lead to emptiness in time, they all go bankrupt! Today’s great stars will fade and be replaced by new stars, the cycle of fads will continue.

A bowery bum was found with a slashed throat in 1864. The Derelicts name and address was misspelled on the hospital form, they also missed his age, but no one seemed to care. He was just a bum. Early in the morning he stumbled out of bed and staggered to the wash basin where he fell dying. Three days later the man died from malnutrition, alcoholism and loss of blood. A friend finally came and identified him. They recovered 38 cents from the man's pockets and a scrap of paper. This amount of money would have been one more night's lodging at the bowery. On the piece of paper were written five words:" Dear friends and gentle hearts." The start of a speech never finished before this man died at age 37. He had given the world some of the greatest fad songs of the times, “CAMPTOWN RACES,” “OH SUSANNA,” “JEANIE WITH THE LIGHT BROWN HAIR,” “MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME,” and hundreds more. His name was Stephen Foster. He died bankrupt although he gave the world great songs that were the fad of his time./ source unknown.

I John 2:15 Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. 16 For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. 17 And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave... but the one who does the will of GOD endures forever.