Each year on January 7th
National Bobblehead Day
recognizes a day of celebration for all spring-connected head bobbing figurines.
“For over 100 years, Bobbleheads have been entertaining and fascinating fans and collectors. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, too. Bobbleheads commemorate iconic teams, movies, and cartoon characters. Individually, they represent some of our most exciting athletes or thrilling television and movie characters” (source).
I don’t have a favorite Bobblehead to celebrate, but I do have something on my mind.
On Monday I watched an interview on television during my treadmill time. An NBC correspondent was interviewing a well-known public figure, a woman who is accomplished, bright, wealthy, and highly admired. During the interview she explained that no matter what politics people subscribe to, they all want the same basic things: “good health, the ability to earn a good, decent living, to take care of their families, to have prosperity and to be able to pass that on to their children, to live a life that feels vibrant and meaningful to them”.
Because I used to watch her television program, I know that she was raised Baptist, even named for a Biblical character (sort of) and as an adult has reiterated her Christian faith.
She is an Influential Woman
and as so many others do, I find her to be fascinating.
Early on I noticed that she tends to lean toward an all-inclusive spirituality rather than observance of a particular doctrine. Since this bothered me (and still does) there was a time in my life that I was focused on praying for her . I remembered this while I watched the interview.
The interviewer asked her to describe her proudest accomplishment and after a moment of recounting she replied “I feel completely spiritually centered, proudest accomplishment.”
She mentioned a desire to bring people together and have them hear with an “ear of discernment” as people do not know “what is the truth”.
So I searched online to see if there was evidence that she has returned to her childhood faith.
I found a Q&A article in AARP that revealed the following:
Q: So what do you believe?
A: That’s a great question. I believe I don’t know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. I know who and what holds the future. I trust that beyond this space and time, all is well, and all will be well (source).
I hope that means what I hope it means, but I don’t have a good feeling.
When I talked to LB about this he reminded me that it is important to not put faith in any person. There is an opportunity to be let down if you do so. That said, I will continue to hope that she remembers the faith that her grandmother shared with her.
I also hope she understands that one who is as influential as she, has an amount of responsibility for others that is exponential.
Not giving up hope!
Thank you for taking time out of your day to stop by my blog.
