Sunday, in the Superdome, kicker Garrett Hartley experienced that fame is sometimes fleeting. It was only a few months ago that he was one of the heroes in the Saints Super Bowl victory — a proud, honored member of the team crowned the best team in professional football.

The celebrations started that day and continued with parades, banquets, tours with the championship trophy and the team being awarded diamond rings for a job well done. One of the players always mentioned as a valuable member of the Saints’ miracle season was Garrett Hartley.

This year, in the season’s opening game against Minnesota (which the Saints won 14 – 9), Hartley missed two relatively easy field goals. Winning the game made it easy for the fans to overlook his performance and chalk it up as just a bad game. It did not tarnish Hartley’s well deserved image as a hero of the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints.

His reputation was still intact as a player you could depend on in the closing minutes of a close game However, that all ended Sunday when he missed a 29-yard chip-shot field goal in overtime that would have won the game. The memory of his heroics in the NFL Championship and Super Bowl games was history.

There was talk of bringing in a few kickers to maybe replace Hartley. How soon we forget.

I am reminded that nothing in

this wortd will last except what we do to promote God’s Kingdom. All the recognition and material things we accumulate in life will be worthless, unless it glorifies God. If it does, we will be greeted by our Heavenly Father with these words: “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

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