It's just a little thing to most people, but it's BIG to us! When we lived in C'ville we used to have a sign in book during the summers and encourage our kids to bring over as many of their friends as possible. We'd always try to get 100 kids over, but usually hit only around 60 (which is still A LOT of kids). When we built this house, we started thinking how many people had started coming over with our kids, our life group, our family, and our neighbors and made a list.
Christmas week Ryan and Katelyn's friends from Fayetteville came over and Emilee was our 100th guest! I wanted to have a trumpet fanfare, confetti and a live video...but instead, we gave her one of our favorite things - Peanut Butter M & Ms - and took a picture.
It's fun to be able to open our house and know that we use it to welcome, love and serve others. I'm not always good at it, I often discourage my kids from inviting people over when I don't "feel like it" but I know it's what we are called to do. It's not our house, we dedicated it long ago to HIM and don't consider it our own.
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