Three.Six.Six: The Magnolia House.

"How good and pleasant it is when sisters live together in unity." -Psalm 133:1

This time last year all the other freshmen girls had figured out who they were living with, where they were living, and some had even signed leases already, but Rene, Grace and I were out in the dust with no where to live. We tried to get excited about living on campus, looked at cheap apartments, searched for houses and more girls, but couldn't really get excited about any of our options. So we did what any good group of christian girls would do - handed it over to the Lord. We knew that he wasn't going to let us go homeless our sophomore year and that he had some sort of a plan in the cards for us.

Just before Christmas break a cryptic text changed all of our plans for the next year. Five girls a year older than us were moving into a HUGE house and needed three more girls to share it with. Three girls exactly. That always gets me when I look back on it, just how perfectly it all worked out - numbers wise at least. It's funny to me that at a random table in an empty dining hall the three of us committed right then and there to living with 5 girls we barely knew at all (and by that I mean all we knew was the basics there shared in our 30 minute meeting).

Less than a year later the seven of us (we lost one along the way) we had our house pictures taken, and that was just such a sweet reminder of house the Lord has knit us together in his love and in this house. Granted, we are broken humans. We have our faults. We fail at loving each other and showing each other Christ a lot. But honestly I wouldn't wish to be living any where else in the world right now. It really is pleasant and good living as sisters in the unity of Christ.

Shouts to Lauren Bradshaw for capturing our sweet and unique relationships on film, and shouts to my man Jesus for giving me these relationships!