Phony Toni

Toni Braxton has won six Grammies and is probably best known for her mega-hit song, hit "Un-break My Heart" and her appearances on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars." Well just imagine that you paid over $50 for a ticket to hear the popular singer in concert. Part way through the concert you realize that the Toni Braxton performing before you is not really Toni Braxton at all, but the Braxton celebrity impersonator Trina Johnson-Finn. Think you'd be a bit upset? The concert goers who actually experienced this were. They pelted Johnson-Finn with trash and booed her off the stage. Then authorities arrested her and she spent three months in jail awaiting her hearing which finally arrived this week. The judge acquitted her and she has returned to her Las Vegas home (By the way, all this happened in Suriname which is the smallest country in South America. It is located on the northern coast of the continent, just to the north of Brazil.).

Now as to whether this celeb impersonator was really in on the scam or was just used by the concert promoters - I do not know. But I do know this - impersonators are all around us. An impersonator is simply someone who pretends to be another. All of us from time to time pretend to be someone we are not. We pretend to be the guy who as it all together. We pretend to be the woman who is really spiritual. And why do we do so? Unlike the impersonator in the above story, we don't do it to entertain. But we do it in order that others would think better of us. When we do this we forget one important truth. We might be able to fool those around us - but we can never fool God. So let's stop pretending and get real!

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pj