Buzzword Bingo

We've been listening to a lot of old music (heh - you know, from the 80s) because I'm loading up my iPod. I pulled out some old Kenny Marks a couple weeks ago because Lori asked me if we had one of his songs - "White Dress."

She wore a white dress

And a rainbow ribbon in her hair

One candle burns on a birthday cake

Mom and dad are there

Wishing they could be like her without a care

She wore a pink dress

To her school on her very first day

Mom and dad drove here there and they cried

As they drove away

Tears for her, but more tears for yesterday

She wore a blue dress

And rode her bike to the corner store

Daddy said now he's leaving for good

And he slammed the door

No goodbyes, no more daddy anymore

Well, as she grew up, they grew apart

It'll never be the same

And they watch love go with a heavy heart

And they wonder who's to blame

"It's not your fault daddy went away

He went walking out the door

And it's not your fault daddy had to say

He didn't love me any more."

She wore a red dress

And her momma's single strand of pearls

Dressed and ready for the senior prom

What a lovely girl

And her momma said,

"You're a woman now and it's time I say

A certain thing or two

Have the time of your life and remember dear

I'm so very proud of you."

It's not your fault daddy went away

There was nothing you could do

And please believe me when I say

There's nothing wrong with you

She wore a white dress

One candle burns as it did before

Baby smiles at the sad old man

Standing at the door

He said,

"I don't know what I ever left here for."

"Well I can't stay long but I want to say

A certain thing or two

Since I've been gone my world's been gray

But the color's stayed with you."

And before he left he laid a gift

On baby's little bed

Inside they found a rainbow dress

Of white, pink, blue and red

Of white, pink, blue and red.

Okay, it's kind of...sappy? I don't know, but I really like it. It's got a great piano part and...well, I guess I just really like moody story songs.

So, Elie heard the song the other day and she started to cry - "No goodbyes, no more Daddy anymore..." We explained that it's just a story - those aren't real people in the song and that it won't ever happen to us...

But now she's still trying to make sense of the song. "Daddy, how could the daddy know all that stuff if he went away? So, really he just stayed, didn't he?" She thought for a minute. "Or, maybe he left at the end of the song."

She comes up with some pretty elaborate schemes to try to understand this mommy, daddy and daughter story - because it is so outside her realm of experience. So she's trying to make sense of the whole story.

And I think that sometimes we do that kind of thing when God is moving in someone's life. If it's outside our frame of reference - if it's beyond our experience, well, we don't understand it and it's pretty easy to begin fabricating a reality based on our own and superimposing it on someone else.

Ah, then again I could be wrong...