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I was so excited to capture my friends and their newborn, Logan!

I am now booking photo shoots! Inquiries can be sent to lesteelizabeth@gmail.com.

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Leste

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Meet Celeste

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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friends I have been ALL OVER the personal development lately. i think i go through spurts 😂 i am always doing some sort of input, but currently i am on an all day, every day kick. some of my favorite accounts/podcasts right now are... @macymcneely @drcarolineleaf and Switch On Your Brain @daveramsey and FPU and @jordanleedooley and to stay on track with goals I am a faithful @cultivatewhatmatters @powersheets user ✊🏼 - - I’m feeling inspired to GET STUFF DONE and to run hard after dreams even if this feels like a new beginning. How do you ever accomplish anything if you never start because you’re too scared? - - Tell me your favorite personal development tool right now! Book, podcast, tool, etc. I am all ears and I am powering through content like it’s no ones business. Happy Wednesday, friends!

i am really thankful for what a season this has been of growth, and how much growing there still is to do. right now, things feel fresh. it feels like a foundation is being built for something bigger, something poignant, something life changing. i am expectant. i am grateful. i am learning. and this fresh, foundational season is even sweeter getting glimpses of what could be coming ✨ - - B and I continue to learn about the really fascinating, broad and vast world of finances. And if you know me, you KNOW that numbers and math aren’t my thing. So if it can be interesting to me, it can be interesting to you 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’m continuing to find my groove being a virtual assistant to @perkos_place while he lives on the coast of Australia 🇦🇺, and I think I can now successfully add “professional at working with international time zones” to my resume 💃🏻 and then there’s some creative projects that I’m head over heels for 😍 - - One things for sure, God is sure building something beautiful and stretching me in ways I’ve never been stretched before. And if I let myself believe for one second that His intentions aren’t FOR me then I immediately hand over the keys to my head and my heart and my future to the enemy. I’ll admit, I’ve done it too many times and too much recently. Not anymore. No way, no how. Let’s go, God! I’m readyyy! 💞

appreciation post for my guy because he’s dealt with my sick self all week long, and not only dealt with me but loved me and served me and done everything i couldn’t do. also- watching him step into what he loves and enjoy his day job day to day is a BIG 👏🏼 DEAL 👏🏼. B, you are thriving and it’s my favorite thing to watch. i love you something fierce.

I think a lot about why bad things happen... - - I think it’s part of my natural bent (not saying it’s a positive thing) and I’m easily effected, thrown off, and mentally blocked by the news of horrible things that happen. I, selfishly, then apply those things to myself and search for more knowledge because I want to figure out how to prevent it. - - but my friend who is extremely wise, and who thankfully is different from me, told me on my birthday this year (in the middle of one of my freak outs) that the amount of time I spend obsessing over these scenarios, news stories, and awfully unfortunate events is the amount of time I should spend praying for those people whose lives have been turned upside down. - - Let me tell you, I didn’t listen right away. But recently I’ve spent more time in prayer, in constant communication with God, than I have in a long time. While I’m driving, taking off my make up and falling asleep at night I do my best to not worry about anything and pray about everything (Phil 4:6)...everything I’m thankful for like that I can breathe and that I woke up today to everything that makes me terrified and paralyzed. I also feel like I have to say that it’s ok to wrestle until you can move forward. This wasn’t an instant application. I’m stubborn and I’ll hold my ground until hit by a bus and forced to move. - - But I think this process has also shown me so much more of Gods character. I think He gets way more joy out of us willingly approaching Him than if He were to force us. I think He is way more persistent of our hearts than we might believe. I think He is more willing to sit with us while we figure things out. I think His heart breaks for more than we realize, and I think that when He sees His kids hurting He has already polished the details of His redemption plan. I think that He has more figured out that we can dare to even begin with. - - And I am real thankful that the God I follow doesn’t let us stay hurt forever but that He moves and breathes and sews victory in as the silver lining of our darkest moments, with His thrill of relentless love, so that He can fulfill His promise of making all wrong things right.

✨ f o u r ✨ years of capturing some of my favorite people. friends for even longer. p.s. can’t handle the cuteness OH EM GEEEEEE 😍

“WHY are you doing it?” - - i don’t know your answer to that question. i don’t know where that question sits with you. but i do know the first thing that pops into your head is probably the thing you need to pray about or prioritize. - - maybe you are doing it because you’re scared. maybe you’re doing it because you love it. maybe you’re doing it because you think it’s what’s best. maybe you are doing it because this is how it’s always been or this is what you’ve just decided to do. - - but maybe thinking about it is making you wonder. - - maybe we need to think about our motives. maybe we need to consider God. like really and not just say that we did. maybe we need to back track and fix something that’s broken. maybe we need to apologize. maybe we need to take a break. maybe we need to keep going. maybe we need to not give up. or maybe giving up and giving in is exactly our best next step. - - but sometimes asking “why” might be the best thing we can do to remember who we are and where we want to go. #LetsDoMoreOfThat

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