Renewed Faith

It was a typical Tuesday. Get up, yell at dog, sit outside, eat my cereal, take shower, pack, head to work, blah blah blah.

I got off work around 4 and had to run to my friend Stacey's to take photos of her sweet new baby. Then skirted out, hopped on a conference call at 530 and headed to Raleigh to teach a class tomorrow.

I love babies.

Well, on the way, it was getting late and even though I had my heart set on eating japanese when I got to Raleigh, I was starving from skipping lunch. I had to stop.

And here is my dilemma. I hate fast food. Detest fast food. I tolerate chic fil a but other than that, it almost always sucks. I don't even like the idea of fast food. I hate sitting and waiting and the thought that what makes it fast is the utter deterioration of all quality and freshness.

Well, I was in a hurry, like so many of us are, and saw a sign for "Cookout." My friend, Chris wanted to take me there a couple of weeks ago and when we arrived, I was kinda relieved that the line was so ridiculous we couldn't get in the parking lot. I chalked it up to all the rednecks and construction workers in the area were on their lunch break. Foley, I'm sorry I doubted you.

"Cookout" is freakin awesome! Ohmygod! The burger tasted just like my Dad took that baby off the grill. The coke was all "biting" and had that teeny pebble ice. I thought it was July 4th.

So anyway, my faith has been renewed in fast food.

Other than that, like I said, typical Tuesday. I'm holed up in the hotel for the night.

I have to share a sweet song I've been listening to for a few days. I can't stop singing it.

So Small
by Carrie Underwood

What you got if you ain't got love

The kind that you just want to give away

It's ok to open up

Go ahead and let the light shine through

I know it's hard on a rainy day

You wanna shut the world out and just be left alone

But don't run out on your faith

Cause sometimes that mountain you've been climbing

Is just a grain of sand

And what you've been out there searching for forever

Is in your hands

And when you figure out love is all that matters after all

It sure makes everything else seem

So small

It's so easy to get lost inside

A problem that seems so big at the time

It's like a river that's so wide it swallows you whole

While you're sitting around thinking about what you can't change

And worrying about all the wrong things

Time's flying by, moving so fast

You better make it count cause you can't get it back

Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing

Is just a grain of sand

And what you've been out there searching for forever

Is in your hands

Oh, and when you figure out love is all that matters after all

It sure makes everything else seem

So small

Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing

Is just a grain of sand

And what you've out there searching for forever

Is in your hands

And then you figure out love is all that matters after all

It sure makes everything else

Oh, it sure makes everything else seem

So small

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