MEETING THE STARS!

Someone asked me this week about meeting so many famous people in my life, and what I’d learned through that. Good question, as I have been meeting “famous” people since I was a kid, in many worlds. Artists, thinkers, entertainers etc. Haven’t thought enough about what i learn from those types of encounters! So–
So here’s a bit about what I’ve learned from meeting actually famous people…
When you meet someone who is well known, there is the outer and the inner glow. There is often hype around them, but then there is just them, behind or beneath the outer glow. I tend to go there—towards the real person, and see where their at!

I try to look for what’s going on inside them, in their real lives. Sometimes it’s hard to see through the veneer, depending on the buzz around them, but usually, i can make human to human contact outside the celebrity fame thing.
I’ve met many famous artist and people along my way. So have thought about how they too need real contact, and often need tangible Love outside of an adoration for their gifts!

When I met Madonna, for instance, she called me over to her table, and we talked; i told her among other things, that she was dearly cherished by the father, whether anyone ever knew it or not. And that part of her fame was to give her an experience of how dearly Father loved her. That overflow from knowing you are loved, creates a contagious blessing for others, which last past fame!

That word went in, she even cried, and then asked me to give “words” for all her entourage around the table (not as easy that task! Three djs who spoke french (did that part in tongues!), and several film producers etc. I’ll remember that for a long time. Even when people appear beloved, they rarely and often don’t know it inside themselves! And that’s true for ministers, saints, priest and entertainers as well. She was shocked by how dearly God loved her, and would go out of His way to tell her so. I’ll never forget that.

Having met so many famous people, i know that not all of them know just how loved they are as people, outside their amazing gifts. We tend to honor people’s gifts, but not them themselves. And so many simply don’t feel loved. Even though they are famous and known by people everywhere.

Reminds me always to never judge by fame celebrity or appearances, to discern by the heart, and what it really needs—as the book says. A book is not really known by its cover. You have to look inside in Love to get what its really about!

Also, all people have real spiritual needs, regardless of their level of notoriety! It’s good to discern those, and bless in that usually churning and waiting good soil! Just thinking about that today, since someone asked me!
Materialism like entertainment judges by appearance and externals, and puts self worth and identity grounding there. But people, all of us, are more than that, and need a higher grounding. We are more than our brands in the end. And need to be encountered as more.

People are people, we have common needs to belong, be loved, have friends, have an upper story or spirituality in our lives which contextualizes our life stories.

We all need a context and care. Nothing has really changed in that. But celebrities tend to get isolated and seen more as a product based on their gifts.

So it’s good to just meet them themselves. I am to I am, as they say. I to Thou as Buber put it. That’s what I try to do. Fame passes, people matter more, and often have more going on, than meets the eye, unless we engage our “I”, we may not see their “thou’s”, as Martin Buber would’ve put it!

I’ve enjoyed having authentic encounters with lots of “stars”, through the years, but I also tend to see all people as stars, although some people highlight glory, as they say-they are meant to make glory more overt and obvious! Yet, to see us all as stars, makes it easier- to just love people as and where we are!

Each of us some sort of broken, half falling stars, becoming, slowly more radiantly ourselves as we receive, then perforce give, more Love.