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Friday, March 23, 2012

Benuel Paul

You know all that jazz about brothers being annoying and the worst possible life sentence God could have ever dropped on us?  Yeah.  Well, I just don't have that plague.  I have really cool brothers.



Ben is the exception.



He's awesome.


 I mean how many guys do you know that wear pink and let you take pictures of them by flowers?  Oh yeah.  The pink thing.  I have to show you this picture.  Hold on a sec....



But that's not really fair.  Jared's incredible.  Caleb's rock solid.  Timothy's inspiring.  Michael's cute.  Anyway....




I just happen to like Ben a lot.  No favoritism.  Because Jared's my best friend.  Caleb's my protector.  Timothy's my special little brother.  I love Michael like crazy.



I digress, because surely if you aren't rolling your eyes you at LEAST get the point by now.

There's no other love like the love for a brother.
There's no other love like the love from a brother.
-Astrid Alauda


 


Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
-Vietnamese Proverb



Ben's a goofball.  His gift is making people laugh.  He works hard for the specified amount of time, and then has fun.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.
Groucho Marx






I imagine this being a conversation Ben has with his wife someday:
Ben: "Do you like gardinia's?"
Wife: " Why Yes I Adore Them. How did you know?"
Ben: " I Didn't so I got you a forget-me-not instead." (from The Marx brothers)








That was a knee slapper Lis!  C'mon!  I'm serious, that right there was funny!  Ya hafta admit it!

It snowed last year too:
I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down
and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.
-Dylan Thomas

That's pretty much why I love brothers.  They don't have a choice about it.  I don't have a choice about what brothers I get.  It's just mysterious and insane.  And I love it.











Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
-Marc Brown

Mostly, I love the way he praises the Lord on the piano.  It's beautiful.  I spent ten years of my life learning to play and read difficult pieces of music, and Ben just PLAYS and it's gorgeous.  Inspiring.  Touching.

Oh yeah, that's another thing about brothers.  They outdo you with EVERRRRYYYYTHHHIIINNNNG.  Oh well!


Yours,

Lis

PS: Words of wisdom from the peanut gallery.  If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
-Sam Levenson


3 comments:

  1. I love this post Lis!
    Ben IS pretty awesome.
    All your bro's are though.
    And, WOW! The locations for the photos are incredible. I LOVE the huge tree bursting with flowers (the pics with flowers falling are SO cool!)

    P.S. I love how you love your bros...and talk, talk, talk about it! Lol. That's something the Fash's do too. And I just think it's awesome that they (and yall) think that your siblings are the best people who God ever created to grace the face of planet Earth...and that we need constant reminding of it!! I think having that heart is swell, and hilarious, and just like God intended!! (:

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  2. I always wanted a brother! :( But praise God He gave us a son so our daughter has a brother!!! :D I hope Lilian says things like this about Keith someday! This is a great post, very great! Good pics too. I really like the one that's 4th from the bottom. And the Levenson quote... that's a thought provoking observation.

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  3. ..and after all that 'gloating' I'm sure you thank God every day fer yer brudders!! ;) ...and I know again why there was always this wish on my falling star-- God, send me a big brother! :{ =) but He DID. I married a GREAT man who is a sweet, teasing, joking, laughing brother with his sisters and mother [and now me ;)] =))))

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