Boring, but Beautiful.

Let me tell you a story.
My church was having a Garage Sale, to support our Missions Team to go over to the Phillipines.
So I thought to myself, why not have a look and see if there's anything cheap/cool, as you do when there is a Garage Sale.
I wondered around the hall like a little child, looking through a toy shop. I secretly love Garage Sales. (I guess it's not a secret anymore.)
Anyways, I was aimlessly wandering until, there it was right before my eyes. The most beautiful/boring table you'd ever seen. Beautiful because I could see the potential, and boring cause it was, well boring. There was something quaint about this table. And it was love at first sight.

So what did I do?
I ran in to the intern office to get my best friend to make sure I wasnt going crazy. She approved of the table and with much excitement we planned how we were going to change this boring table, into a beautiful table... Until, we looked at the price tag. I'm not going to lie, I thought the table would be like $30 at the most, but to our surprise it was like $60. So there went our table plans. We were shattered.

It was the Sunday after the garage sale, and there were still some items left in the hall for sale. So Lauren and I thought hopefully, "lets go look and see if the table is still there."
To our surprisement, it was... don't get too excited, because it had a SOLD sticker on it. Now we had been excited then disappointed, then back to excited, and then again disappointed.

We decided to let go of our table dreams.

During the next week, I went to work at the church as usual. And Pastor Rob walks in to the office and says; "Do you like you're table?"
And I said; "Excuse me?"
And then he said; "I heard you and Lauren talking about how much you wanted that table, so I put a sold sticker on it to save it for you."
And I was like; "Oh My Goodness! really?"
And he said; "Yeh, you can have it for $20"
So I called Lauren in and we were so very excited!!

The point of that ridicously long story was that we got our boring table.
And now we have made it beautiful.



That was before.     

This is now: