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My name is Celeste Elizabeth and I'm so glad you're here. I hope in this space you find words that encourage you, resonate with you, and inspire you. I hope that when you're done here that you would do something brave, something out of love, or something you believe will make the world a better place. #LetsDoMoreOfThat

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The past few days have been really hard. I’ve cried more in the past 5 days than since we moved from COS to Appleton in April. Some of it is because I love people, and I am so happy for certain things in their life, certain decisions being made, certain transforming moments. Some of it is because I am scared of the future. Some of it is because I am missing things. Most of it is because I am heartbroken watching people I love walk through unimaginable grief and simultaneously I am awestruck at their hope for heaven. My counselor had me start doing visualization prayers. She told me to close my eyes and picture handing things over into the hands of God...my hopes, my dreams, my pain, and my grief. The first time I did it, I didn’t last more than a minute. I saw myself open the front door, and He walked in. He handed me a cup of coffee and we walked into the living room. I thought we were going to sit on the couch but we went straight to the floor. He just opened His arms and I opened my eyes. I’ve always had this very tangible visual of God letting me lay my head on His chest like my Dad would let me do when I was having a bad day, when I was crying or upset. I see the parallels all the time. Seeing that my sweet Dad was created in the image of a loving, gracious, understanding Father who works to make all wrong things right and loves Him way more than I ever could. These past few days I’ve been reminded of that over and over again, that God is loving, kind, gracious, understanding AND He does make all wrong things right. Which is probably also part of the explanation for all the tears. I think it’s easy to believe that a belief in God translates to a rigid religion. And while liturgy can and does serve a very intimate purpose, I would trade all my moments of religion for any moment of love. Where it’s that feeling and vision I’ve had of a string connecting my heart to Gods. Where it is that feeling that the space between heaven and earth is thin, almost so that we can taste it through the moments where we whisper to ourselves “i think this is what it will be like”. Continued in comments...

@snoozeameatery is one of our favorites. 🤤🤤🤤 #SnoozeColoradoSprings #SnoozeAMEatery

bummed for the Packers, cheering for the Chiefs (SUPER BOWL LET’S GOOOOOO ❤️💛❤️), grateful for these people always, and counting down the days until we can go outside without a coat.

In 2019 we went all over the place... Kansas Wisconsin Utah Illinois Minnesota Colorado Ohio not to mention all the states we 🚗 through. 2020 is looking similar and we are thrilled! #BlesteAdventures #WeAreTheEdwards

The Burnham’s... where we would much rather make a home cooked meal than ever go out. - - I love my family so much. I loved this time. Having all of us (minus Noah but he was there before this picture) in one place at one time is rare. And I think as I get older, I see more of its importance. - - I love that every meal we ate this weekend was homemade. I loved that I spent an afternoon with my aunt picking out recipes I want to make. I love that we spent tons of time sitting at the table without our phones and that while we were in that house we didn’t even turn on the tv. I love that we did crossword puzzles and sudoku and word searches. I love that there were over 1,000 homemade cookies at this gathering and some recipes have been passed down for generations. I loved that we took pictures to commemorate this moment in my aunts backyard. - - This year was also the first Christmas without our beloved Nana and it was beautiful that we were all together. I’m sure there’s nothing she would have loved more.♥️ #MerryChristmas #Family

Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. The day when the light fades quicker and darkness’ blanket wraps us up early. But today also marks something new. From here, light starts creeping in sooner. Light starts taking up more time and more space, because our hope of the world is nearly here. Light starts taking up more of our day to day, illuminating everything from the shadows. Light starts spending more time helping us hang on. Light starts helping us hang on to hope and hold victory higher, longer, and even when the sun goes down. Thank you winter solstice, for reminding me that the Light of the world is nearly here... and He will light up everything. #LetsDoMoreOfThat

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