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I love being home.

I love laughing (and crying) with my mom and sister. I love talking about life with my dad. I love wrestling with my brothers. I love sitting around our living room by the fire. I love reading my Bible in the mornings while my brother reads his next to me. I even love my little miniature schnauzer named Maggie who recently had all her fur shaved and now looks kind of like a rat.

The more I've been around other families the more I realize that mine really is unusual (in a really great way). They are my best friends. If I could pick anyone in the whole world to spend time with, these people would be who I would pick.

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

-George Elliot.

champion.

"You don't need a man Liz... you need a champion."

I watched Eat, Pray, Love over Thanksgiving break for the 2nd time & loved it even more. And that line up there might have been my favorite one in the whole movie. I liked it because he's right, we need a champion. It reminded me of this verse in Exodus...

"the LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be still." (exodus 14:14)

Because I really like looking up words and stuff, I looked up this one and thought it was really great:

cham·pi·on

 

[cham-pee-uhn]

–noun

1.

a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition orseries of competitions, so as to

hold 1st place.

2.

anything that takes first place in competition

3.

a person who fights for or defends any person or cause

4.

a fighter or warrior.

the Lord is my champion :)