I don’t remember when I have heard so many jokes about young woman dying as I have surrounding the tragic life and death of Anna Nicole Smith… But this young woman’s fate just wants to make me cry. It is the most profound tragedy. I know that it has been afforded more newsworthiness than in justified. I know that she was often a caricature of her own life. I realize that she was filthy rich for marrying an old codger, but all of that doesn’t erase one glaring reality: This was a human being, made in the image of God, loved by the Father, a little girl for whom Jesus died, someone’s daughter, someone’s mother, a loved one… And she had a sweetness and wonder about her that made her endearing.All this being said – and much has been said and will be, ultimate realities are eternal and we, as a Christian, I am compelled and called to live beyond the hype and the media driven imitations of life to see people and circumstances through the eyes of a God who is intimately involved with every individual. God’s love for Anna Nicole Smith is undiminsihed and is not open for a vote. That is the lesson I take away from this tragedy.