CARRIE FISHER

Carrie Fisher suffered a heart attack on a flight from London to L. A. Later, in a hospital, Carrie Fisher, who shot to fame as Princess Leia of "Star Wars" fame, was gone, never regaining consciousness.

An outpouring from the rich and famous was forthcoming, Harrison Ford called her, "brilliant," somebody you and I never heard of said she was"the brightest," while George Lucas pronounced her "extremely smart." Maybe we ought to reexamine those adjectives, just for the record. Let's take a look at the summary of her life and, having done that, you decide if the above nomenclature fits.

HER EARLY YEARS

She smoked marijuana at age 17, used LSD at 21. While filming "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) and "Return of the Jedi," (1983), she was into cocaine. (We note a drug progression--from marijuana to LSD to cocaine.)

AT HOME WITH CARRIE

On the home front, her husband would daily wonder, "What powder and pills will be sizzling inside her feverish skull today?" Not only that, but also she was subject to wild mood swings accompanied by just as wild indulgences.

By 1981, she was writing, "I was completely crazy . . . I was on drugs, . . losing a lot of weight . . . not sleeping, and I had a seizure on the movie set."

INTO THE AMAZON!

As an evidence of the "I-was-completely-crazy-description," Carrie Fisher visited a spiritual healer in the Amazon and drank a psychic tea to cleanse her spirits. As you would expect, it failed to do the needed cleansing. (Do the brightest, the extremely smart, and brilliant people betake themselves to the Amazon to drink psychic tea,whatever that is, to cleanse themselves of spirits?)

ONE WILD NIGHT AMONG MANY

Then there was the time in 2005, after a night of debauchery, when lobbyist Gregory Stevens died of an overdose in Carrie's home. Regarding all of the above (there's more to come) is this it the behavior of smart, brilliant, and the brightest people to host or even attend a such a night and, as a result someone dies of an overdose?

THE PARTY, THE POLICE

Then, on October 21, 2016, in Italy, came the birthday celebration of Carrie Fisher. It was unusual--it began at 2 AM. (Do the birthday parties of smart, bright, and brilliant people begin at that time?) The party got so loud that neighbors called the police which led Carrie to describe their coming as, "Always the sign of a successful party." (Do smart, brilliant, and bright people describe a successful party that way? Who do you know anyone who's proud the police showed up to quell a disturbance in their home?)

THE REGRETS

Carrie said that she lived with regrets, big-time: she regretted that her daughter had to visit her in a mental hospital and see, firsthand, what she had become. Then, she wrote, "I regret seeing the hurts and disappointments these [drug-fueled] forays put in the eyes of my loved ones."

COME THANKSGIVING

Then, around Thanksgiving time this year, a friend described Carrie as "high as a kite." A month later, she had the heart attack on that airplane headed to L. A. She was 60; her self-induced misery demanded payback.

TRIPLE TRAGEDIES

There is a triple tragedy in this: a life wasted; celebrity friends calling her brilliant, smart, and the brightest; a gullible public believing them. The Bible says different:

"Doing wickedness is like sport to a fool . . ." Proverbs 10:23
". . . it is an abomination to fools to turn away from evil." Proverbs 13:19
 "Fools mock at sin . . ." Proverbs 14:9

The Bible doesn't call Carrie "brilliant," "bright," or "smart." The repeated word in bold type in the above sentences says it all.

But the Bible also says something else: if Carrie Fisher departed this world without Christ, God wept.