reasons why I love being a girl

1. I can dress up with my friends no matter how old I am

2. I can talk about how attractive celebrities are and no one judges me for it

3. I can unashamedly love Taylor Swift

4. I can buy pretty underwear

5. I can wear skirts and high heels

6. I can giggle with my friends

7. I can cry at Disney movies and not be embarrassed

8. I can cuddle with other women

9. I get to do things like the sunshine box

let's risk the ocean

Disturb us, Lord,

When we are

too pleased

with ourselves.

When our dreams have

come true

because we have

dreamed too little.

When we have arrived safely

because we have

sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord,

When with the abundance of

things we possess,

we have lost our thirst

for the waters of life,

having fallen in love with life,

we have ceased to dream of eternity,

and in our efforts to build a

new earth,

we have allowed our vision of the

new heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord,

to dare more boldly,

to venture on wider seas,

where storms will

show your mastery,

where losing sight of land,

we shall find the stars.

We ask you to push back the

horizon of our hopes,

and to push us into the future

in strength, courage, hope and love.

This we ask in the name of our Captain,

who is Jesus Christ

Sir Frances Drake

today I am thankful.

...that I had time to finish my whole cup off coffee (not in a to-go mug) before I had to leave for school.

...that the sun was shining and I got to be outside in it.

...for an "I'll come by for just a few minutes" that turns into an hour.

...for dandelions (they are my favorite thing about spring).

...for 5th graders that miss me when I'm gone for only one day.

snow day.

here's hoping for another snow day :)

"funny the way it is, somebody's broken heart becomes your favorite song"

I guess songs, like most art, are best when they express strong emotion. My favorite songs are about heartbreak. I just love them because of how much they feel, you know?

No one writes songs about heatbreak quite like Sara Bareilles. The woman is brilliant. She almost makes me wish I was heartbroken because of how beautiful she makes it sound.

My new favorite is this one:

Bluebird

Listen to it. Please love it like I do :)

[the title is a Dave Matthews quote... love that guy]

HOME

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 :)