always there for you
it’s always, always faithful
a beacon of hope
Adapted from Anthony Bourdain on a visit to a Waffle House.
Bourdain wrote, “It is indeed marvelous.
An irony free zone where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts for everybody regardless of race, creed, color, or degree of inebriation is welcomed.
It’s warm yellow glow, a beacon of hope and salvation inviting the hungry, the lost, the seriously hammered all across the south to come inside, a place of safety and nourishment.
It never closes.
It is always, always faithful, always there for you.” (Parts Unknown – 2015)
On Sunday just past, at our place of worship, Cross Pointe Church in Duluth, Georgia, our Pastor, James Merritt, played this clip to start his sermon.
Pastor Merritt then asked, “Why can’t Church be like this?”
I like Waffle House.
I also agree with the advice, “but you got to find the good ones.”
Regardless, everything Bourdain says is true.
Come inside!
A place of safety.
Always, always faithful.
It never closes.
My daughter worked there for awhile.
Long enough for us to learn about the secret code of how the cook can identify everything on the menu by the arrangement of the packets of condiments and silver ware on an empty plate waiting on the counter.
Now my daughter says why go there for food you can make just as well as home.
It is not JUST the food is it?
From the goofy signs on the wall to the clatter of crockery.
Everything is beautiful.
Nothing hurts.
Everybody regardless of race, creed, color, or degree of inebriation is welcomed.
It is a church of sorts.
A community.
A beacon of hope.
Not just Church, why can’t the world be more like Waffle House?
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