👉🏻 swipe to see the before picture!! •• The first time I stepped foot in this kitchen, I was in 7th grade. I grew up playing with friends in this exact house. ✨ Flash-forward more than a DECADE - When I got a phone call from my childhood friends’ mother, that was about to change our lives in more ways than we realized. 24 hours later, and 9 months pregnant — we signed the dotted line & started packing 📦 for our new house. Any doubt we had about moving, the Lord squashed when He sold our house at the 9am showing on listing day. Heaintwastingtime! •• We were NOT looking to move! ✨ which is the best part because it illustrates the beauty of our Savior: • even when we aren’t looking for Him, He is P U R S U I N G us. ✨ We didn’t realize that with the house, came lots of neighbors with teenage children, and teenage friends. ✨One by one they came into our lives & and we felt the Lord’s nudge to •pursue them• like He pursued us. ✨Today, 10 teenage girls and 10 teenage boys gather around this kitchen island every week to make themselves at home with our pantry & • pursue Jesus• together. Griff and I agree that these kids do more for our faith than I’m sure we do for theirs.♥️ •• I read Jeremiah 29:11 and just laugh. God says, “For I know the plans I have for you. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.” ✨The things I talked about in this kitchen 10 years ago with my friends, are the things we talk about with these kids. The temptations of high school, the mean girls, science, pressure of athletics, parent struggles, popularity, plans on prom night. God started writing this •story of pursuit• when I was 13 years old, knowing full well what would be taking place in this house 15 years later. Sure, it’s fun to do house projects & pick out pretty counter tops and dishes. But I remind myself daily, that we’re just playing house in a temporary home that isn’t ours. Ev-er-y-thing we have is because of Gods grace & everything we do with it, I pray brings Him glory. glorytoglory . Shop kitchen stools, lights, shelves & dishes on my @liketoknow.it by screenshotting this pic or copying this link to browser: http://liketk.it/2C3uI liketkit