I heard this song while driving my parents to the airport at 4 in the morning and it woke me up real quick. The words just resonated in my heart and it felt like I wrote it in my sleep and was hearing the finished product for the first time. (Please tell me I'm not the only one that hears songs an feels that way, music is just magic). I went home and instead of going back to sleep for another hour before the babies woke up, I looked up the song and learned it on the guitar and started studying the lyrics. I'm obsessed now.

Chelsea wrote a post (thanks for the inspiration) about how much she loves her hubby and as I read it I was brought back to this song and how it reminds me of the sweet perspective that marriage gives us. I truly believe that marriage give us this unique-to-marriage opportunity to become so much more than what we could become on our own and ironically, it requires us to sacrifice so much of who we are. The reward is somehow so much grater than what we give.

Favorite part: "We found our home, something we can build for years"

Physically, no, no home for the Merrells, probably not for a while, and Christmas aint looking too abundant either, but after the past two years, I have no societal urgency to have a beautifully decorated house or the money that's required to do that. Not having anything at all has been the very thing that allowed me to clearly see that I have it all. Chad, Liam and Matix...my home, We'll get our house, we'll find the temporal success, I have no doubt of that, but my kids well-being, their knowledge of their eternal identity, my marital foundation, my relationship with Christ, that will always be what makes me rich beyond measure.

So grateful for my trials, so grateful for the stress, the stretching and the pressure that shapes and fuses Chad and I together. And for our adorable boys that are the driving purpose behind all our passions to succeed and grow.