Lindsay Lohan: Sobriety Rocks!

Okay, I know it's easy to pick on Li-Lo, but I couldn't pass up this headline-grabbing observation from Entertainment Weekly.

The 21-year-old, who sparked a media frenzy in January when she checked into a Los Angeles area rehabilitation center for undisclosed treatment, claims that abstaining from drugs and alcohol has sharpened her skills as an actress. ''I noticed how much better I was,'' Lohan tells Entertainment Weekly. ''How much more clear my thoughts were, too.''

Her statement of the obvious aside, perhaps the starlet is arriving the hard way at the same conclusion Solomon came to: "Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise." (Proverbs 20:1) If media reports (and some of her own interviews) are to be believed, Ms. Lohan is no stranger to being led astray by assorted substances.

Don't get me wrong. Solomon wasn't anti-wine; he just said that partying (with wine and "folly") is a dead end in the search for life that matters. Check out Ecclesiastes 2:1-11. Then check out Mark's book about the rich and famous guy who had it all and tried it all before giving up hope of finding anything worth living for "under the sun." Lindsay probably has more in common with Solomon's wealth, status, and power than most of us ever will. Maybe we could pray that she'll gain some of his kind of wisdom about the one place to look for true meaning beyond this meaningless life.