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Vanity’s Humbling End

Denise Katrina Matthews, famous for becoming the Prince creation “Vanity” succumbed to the multiple health problems caused by a Hollywood lifestyle that nearly killed her in the early 1990s.

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Lying on her death bed in 1994, Matthews renounced her decadent ways and embraced Christ. She remained true to her conversion right up to the end.

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18 Comments on Vanity’s Humbling End

  1. They did a montage of those that died in the past year.
    It is always disheartening to see.

    I didn’t know the guitarist for REO, Gary Richrath passed last September.
    Dude was only 65.
    If you ever saw him play guitar, wow!
    I wish he could have passed that talent on to me.

  2. Dammit, that’s the way I should have lived my life. Completely, totally decadent and hedonistic. Anything for a thrill, until I was so debauched I couldn’t go any longer. Then, at the very last, repent and be forgiven.

    “He slides feet first, and he’s…SAFE at home plate! Runner scores!”

    ?

  3. @Vietvet

    Actually, Aunt Liz is right. You said: “that’s the way I should have lived my life” inferring she lived it that way – sarcasm or not.

    She lived half her life after being saved. No last second slide-in “safe”.

    On the other hand, I agree with your premise. People that get saved on their deathbeds seem to have the easiest go at following Jesus. Repent for a minute before you die and it’s all good.

  4. @Aunt Liz – No problem, and no apology necessary. My smart mouth gets me in trouble all the time, so I’m not bothered by it at all.

    @Dadof4 – OK, you got me. I did imply (not infer) that she lived her life that way, and that was wrong. But hey – can’t a guy be granted a little poetic license when he’s being sarcastic?

    No? Well, OK then, I guess…

    🙂

  5. @Dadof4: Here’s a good way to do that (from Vocabulary.com):

    Like baseball? Theodore Bernstein, in his classic The Careful Writer, gives us a way to keep imply and infer straight: “The implier is the pitcher; the inferrer is the catcher.”

    🙂

  6. Yeah, “deduce from” = infer seems a pretty good litmus test for which to use.

    So, one could infer that you implied she was saved at the last minute?

    Yeah, probably going to flub it in the future too. lol

    Again, thanks.

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