Real Celebrities...?

     So often we think of the famous biblical character David as the beard-less shepherd boy who kills the giant Goliath for his people; a brilliant writer of Psalms. We are even told that the Lord will come from the house of David (Lk. 1, 27...) and will be called the son of David. The guy who was a king and even forgave Saul totally. But that is not the end of the story...the same David (2 Sam. 11...) we hear of a particularly heinous episode in his life involving adultery and murder. And there is more. True, at other times, we have penitence and tears.

         Hey, David pictures on the large screen the ambiguities and inconsistencies in the life of any one of us. Over the whole period of our lives, isn't there some comparable collection of good and bad deeds? So who is the real celebrity?