oh...em...gee...thank you *SO* much for this...

it's funny; my current circumstance would be another blog in itself (there's an idea...hmm), but this spoke right to it...I was near tears even before you mentioned HSM girl, lol...around the time you talked about limiting ourselves and your wife exceeding her own expectations...my God...

in an effort to avoid bombarding your blog I'll just say, once again, thanks...and a couple other points just for honorable mention:

1) yes, I knew you had a blog...I'm just veeeeeerry seldom on MySpace...
2) I think I'm with you on the Mary Mary/David Banner thing, although I'm not sure if you came out 100% for or against it. I didn't even listen to the song (I'm in the campus computer lab), but I can only imagine...and you're certainly right about such collaborations preying on the propensity of those vulnerable populations you mentioned ("young" Christians, etc.) to be fooled...