more Applebee's fun...

I've been thinking lately about making a top 5 list named "You might eat at Applebee's if...". The list would go something like this:

You might eat at Applebee's if...

1. You require extra alfredo sauce with your pasta.
2. Your four year old child enjoys opening sugar packets and pouring them on the floor and/or table.
3. You order your steak "well done, but tender."
4. Your party of twenty arrives two people at a time at ten minute intervals, then adds 4 or 5 more people when you are all finally done eating.
5. You consider 3-4 dollars a good tip regardless of check size.

Sleeping At Last

I have been enjoying a newer CD from Sleeping at Last, and on this CD is a song called "Naive." Not only is it beautiful, but I feel like it expresses so well things that I have felt here and there the past few years with all the changes Kristi and I have gone through together as well as things I have seen happen around me. Buy the CD "Storyboards", it's great!

Naive

Religion is a breeding ground,
where the devil's work is deeply found
with teeth as sharp as cathedral spires
slowly sinking in.

God knows that I've been naive,
but I think it makes Him proud of me.
Now it's so hard to separate
my disappointments from His name.

Because shadows stretch behind the truth
where stained glass offers broken clues,
and fear ties knots and pulls them tight
and it leaves us paralyzed.

But in the end such tired words will rest.
The truth will reroute the narrow things they've said,
and the marionette strings will lower and untie,
and out of the ashes love will be realized.

God knows that we've been naive,
and a bit nearsighted to say the least.
It's broken glass at children's feet,
that gets swept away unexpectedly.