: Celia A. Miller

Celia A. Miller

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- ‘Outpourings of the Heart’: a Blog Series on Exploring the Psalms of David and How He Related to God
You Are Beloved Bible Study
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Conversation sparks connection which leads to true

Conversation sparks connection which leads to true community.

Those who know me best know that I am an introvert and major homebody (at times, bordering on hermit 🤫).

But this week, I had one of my best friends come to stay with me while the husband was traveling for work, and it has been nothing but life-giving.

Our conversations have been deeply honest and real, both of us offering to the other our brokenness with the beauty.

As sit with my friend, I’m reminded of Ann Voskamp’s words from one of my favorite books, The Broken Way,

“The brave baring of all the broken in their brokenness can offer the miracle of communion. Never be afraid of being a broken thing.”

Baring our brokenness with one another has a mysterious way of making us a little bit more whole again.

Conversation sparks connection which leads to true community, and community invites us all to step into the arena of life bravely baring all that we are in the hope of all that could be.

xo,
celia

Day 4 of the @hopewriters Instagram writing challenge // SPARK

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Madeleine L’Engle in her book Walking on Water,

Madeleine L’Engle in her book Walking on Water, writes,

“The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.”

I feel the truth of Madeleine’s words deeply when I write. Even on the days when I don’t want to, writing brings me life.

The desire to create comes from the Creator Himself, and when I put fingers to keypad I find myself completely in tune with His Spirit.

I find a sense of renewed wholeness.

Another very talented author and writer, Emily P. Freeman, introduced me to the practice of intentionally naming what brings me life and what drains the life from me.

I keep a list each month and reflect back on it at the start of every new month, and writing is consistently on my life-giving list.

It’s important to do the things that set our souls on fire, utilizing and executing the talents and dreams God created us with.

If you are a writer (or someone who does not yet confidently call herself a writer but wants to) and you’re wanting to grow in your craft, @hopewriters is opening its doors to new members January 24th-28th.

Hope*writers is an amazing writing community that provides connection, coaching, teaching, and so much more for writers of all stages and walks of life.

They will be holding webinars and social media lives that include:

📝 How To Know if You’re a Real Writer

📝 3 Secrets for Writers Looking for Clarity

📝 17 Breakthrough Ideas for Writers

📝 Q&A with Emily P. Freeman: Your Writing Questions Answered

📝 Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the hope*writers Community

You can find the dates, locations and times for these webinars at the link in my bio if you’re interested 🙃

Here’s to pursuing the things in life that point you on the road towards wholeness.

xo,
celia

Day 3 of the @hopewriters IG Writing Challenge // RENEW

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I read some very good and wise words today from wr

I read some very good and wise words today from writer, author and theologian, Henri Nouwen.

His words, laced with the love of Jesus, have a way of putting my soul at ease while simultaneously challenging me to grow, planting my faith roots deeper.

I want to share his words with you today, and as you read them, may you rest and be restored in God’s presence.

“It strikes me increasingly just how hard-pressed people are nowadays.

It’s as though they’re tearing about from one emergency to another. Never solitary, never still, never really free but always busy about something that just can’t wait.

You get the impression that, amid this frantic hurly-burly, we lose touch with life itself. We have the experience of being busy while nothing real seems to happen.

The more agitated we are, and the more compacted our lives become, the more difficult it is to keep a space where God can let something truly new really take place.

The discipline of the heart helps us to let God into our hearts so that God can become known to us there, in the deepest recesses of our own being.”

May you make space for God in this moment and may you remember that grace carries you, always ♥️

xo,
celia

Day 2 of the @hopewriters IG writing challenge: REST

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A Monday blessing from 2 Thessalonians to slow you

A Monday blessing from 2 Thessalonians to slow you down this week and give you peace✨

May God make you worthy of His calling, and that by His power, may He bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. (2:11)

May the Name of our Lord Jesus be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ. (2:12)

May Jesus Himself and God our Father, who loved you and by His grace gave you eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your heart and strengthen you in every good deed and word. (2:16-17)

May the Lord direct your heart into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance. (3:5)

May the Lord of peace Himself give you peace at all times and in every way. (3:16)

And may the Lord be with you, and His grace carry you, always. (3:16,18)

🖤

xo,
celia

Day 1 of the @hopewriters IG challenge: SLOW

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Let’s start the weekend off with a little #frida

Let’s start the weekend off with a little #fridayintroductions — shall we? 🙃

I’m Celia, and I’m here to help you slow down, seek still moments, and behold God’s presence with you in the everyday.

Here are eight random, quirky things about me that you may not know:

🪴within the past year, my husband and I moved from Warsaw, IN to Greenwood, IN

🪴I just recently published my first Bible study — You Are Beloved — and you can grab it on Amazon at the link in my bio 🙃

🪴my favorite holiday is Thanksgiving

🪴I’m really into Starbucks’ medicine ball tea right now 🍵

🪴I’m trying hot yoga for the first time… today 😜🧘‍♀️ (If you have any tips, let me know)

🪴 I’m working on an Advent devotional titled ‘Be Still & Know’ to help you seek still moments in God’s presence during the Advent season

🪴I’m currently reading two books that I’m enjoying very much: Walking on Water by Madeleine L’Engle and The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley

🪴I strongly dislike scary movies but could sit and watch historical fiction dramas alllll day long

Now, I want to hear a little bit about you, friend!

What’s your go to Starbucks drink? What’s your favorite book or movie? What’s your Hogwarts House? (Bonus fact — mine’s Gryffindor 🦁)

Let me know below 😊

xo,
celia

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Who’s interested in some guided journal recommen

Who’s interested in some guided journal recommendations today? 🙋🏻‍♀️ 📓 📝

If journaling has never been your thing, fear not, because today’s blog post isn’t just for the seasoned journalers.

In today’s blog post, we’re talking about guided journals and why I think even novice journalers would benefit from one.

You can click the link in my bio to read the details of each journal and where to find them, but from top to bottom (pictured 📸) here is my list of top 7 favorite guided journals:

📓My Reading Journal: A Book Journal by @annebogel

📓The Next Right Thing Guided Journal by @emilypfreeman

📓Tending by the Word: a Scripture journal by @marieldavenport

📓Journey into Joy: Cultivating a Heart of Gratitude & Worship by @jazminnfrank

📓The Marriage Journal by @audreyroloff & @jeremyroloff

📓Knowing God Through the Word: a guided Scripture journal by @marieldavenport & @evakubasiak

📓Growth Book Notes by @growthrootsco

May your journal be a safe place to grow, process, reflect and connect with God and yourself.

As you put pen to paper, may God gently uncover your deepest longings and dreams.

May you find clarity and wisdom for all of your next right steps.

May you find a holy peace in the letting go of your fears and worries.

And may you remember that grace carries you, always.

xo,
celia

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On the second Saturday of the new year, may we rem

On the second Saturday of the new year, may we remember that our words and thoughts hold power.

I’m reading through the book of James this week, slowly digesting each of its five chapters one at a time.

I’m in the weeds in chapter three today and the verses that I keep coming back to are James 3:9-11, “With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?”

How often do we praise the Lord for His goodness and then judge, criticize or condemn the good things He’s made?

How many times do we pray to be more like Jesus and then when given the opportunity to love a fellow image-bearer, we shun them for their differences instead?

Our world is so divided right now over so many different things, but the reality is that God calls us to speak words of life and think thoughts rooted in love no matter what.

We are all made in God’s likeness and therefore all in need of the same saving grace. Not one of us is more right, more entitled, or more righteous than the other.

May we go from this place today with James’ words in mind, learning to receive others as they are and not as we want them to be.

xo,
celia

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A breath prayer if you’re feeling rushed and anx

A breath prayer if you’re feeling rushed and anxious about the new year:

“Quiet me, Lord — with Your love.”

This breath prayer is adapted from Zephaniah 3:17, “For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With His love, He will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.”

If you’ve felt overwhelmed, pressured, or even disappointed by the first week of the new year, you’re not alone 🙋🏻‍♀️

I’m a woman that struggles with tying her worth to her productivity level and achievements, so trust me when I say, I know you how feel.

God calls us to dream, and encourages us to dream and goal plan with Him — it’s apart of our innate design.

But when those goals and dreams turn into chains that take center stage — causing anxiety, comparison, and fear — that’s when it’s time to remember that Jesus walks at a slow pace, and invites you to do the same.

Right where you are is where Jesus is, and wherever Jesus is, is where you’re meant to be 🤍

As you pray this breath prayer, remember that your pace is your pace, and slow down long enough to breathe in grace.

And as you call to Him, may His love come to you quietly, gently, and in an all-consuming sort of way.

xo,
celia

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How are you feeling about the new year, honestly?

How are you feeling about the new year, honestly?

Are you excited? Have you already begun goal planning for 2022 as you anticipate all the good things God has in store for you this year?

Or, do you feel rushed? Do you feel behind? Are you feeling sad or possibly lonely as you step into the new year?

Since we're being honest, I'm feeling a little bit of it all.

I feel excited sitting at the threshold of a new year filled with new adventures and new opportunities waiting to be discovered. But I'm also feeling a bit... tired.

I'm making plans but keeping them loosely because if 2020 and 2021 have taught me anything, it's that things don't always go according to my plan. And learning to accept that, learning to surrender my plans to Jesus, makes me feel tired.

So, instead of rushing into the new year, I'm leaning in. I'm leaning into God, leaning into grace, and keeping Solomon's words from Proverbs 16:9 close to my heart as I look ahead into 2022,

"In their hearts, humans plan their course,
but the Lord establishes their steps."

You can read more about my 2022 heart posture in today's new blog post at the link in my bio, and don't forget there's now an option to listen if you'd rather not read 🎧🖤

May this be a year of learning how to surrender and how to receive; surrender control so we have room to receive the grace of God.

xo,
celia

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I spent my New Year’s Eve morning reflecting on

I spent my New Year’s Eve morning reflecting on the thin places of 2021.

The term “thin place” is a Celtic Christian term that refers to times and places in your life where the space between heaven and earth grows thin and the presence of God is evident.

Psalm 77:11-12 encourages us to remember and meditate on the good deeds of the Lord, and I believe this includes pondering the thin places where we’ve encountered Him.

Here are a few of my own from this past year:

1.) Saying goodbye to 1103 East Clark Street as we drove away for the last time.

2.) Walking through our new home in Greenwood for the first time.

3.) Meeting with my spiritual director, Deb, for the very first time and noticing the words “be still & know” written on her office walls.

4.) Watching my little brother marry the love of his life and gaining a new sister.

5.) Every early morning I spend in the presence of God; whether it be Bible open, pen to journal or simply sitting in silence with the Sacred.

6.) Writing. I believe it’s what I was created to do and every time I sit down to write, I’m offering up worship.

7.) Singing Amazing Grace the Sunday after Christmas and tears welling up in my eyes at the thought of God’s unmerited favor and acceptance of me.

I pray you lean into the new year friend, looking for God-glory breaking through all of the thin places in each day He gives you.

Tell me, what are some of your thin places from 2021?

xo,
celia

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A blessing for the new year: As you step into th

A blessing for the new year:

As you step into the new year, friend, may you have the courage to say goodbye to the things in your heart and life that are no longer life-giving.

May you remember that as you say goodbye, there’s always a better hello waiting to take its place if you’ll just be patient enough to look for it.

And may you remember that grace meets you where you are, covers all of where you’ve been, and waits to greet you wherever you go next.

God’s grace is the glue that holds you together.

Here’s to a year of allowing God to mend what’s broken, refine what’s not, and cultivate the new where the old once lived.

xo,
celia

Today’s blessing is from my latest blog post, ‘Goodbye & Hello’, which invites you to pay attention to the things you’d like to say goodbye to in 2021, and the things you’re ready to wave hello to in 2022 ♥️

Check it out at the link in my bio.

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I hope you had a lovely Christmas, friend, and are

I hope you had a lovely Christmas, friend, and are looking forward to the new year ☺️

Speaking of the new year, I decided to write a blog post this week inspired by a practice that my spiritual director invited me to participate in as I head into 2022.

This practice consists of two questions:

▪️What do you want to say goodbye to in 2021?

▪️What do you want to say hello to in 2022?

Head over to the blog today as I explain what I'm saying goodbye and waving hello to as I head into the new year.

I hope you can engage with this practice too, friend, in the presence of God as you allow Him to search your heart and unearth anything that keeps you from drawing closer to Him 🖤

Also, I have some super exciting news for those who prefer to listen rather than read! I've decided to start recording each blog post in an audio file as well.

So, once you click on the link in my bio for today's post, you'll notice at the top of the post that there's an option to listen.

Happy listening! 🎧

xo,
celia

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Merry Christmas, friends 🎄♥️ Today’s tru

Merry Christmas, friends 🎄♥️

Today’s truth is both simple and completely life altering: Be Still & Know, Christ Has Come ✨

He has come, so you are free to come and adore Him just as you are. You can bring your messy, crowded, wounded soul. You can bring a heart full of joy or a mind full of fear.

No matter what state you find yourself in today, Christ invites you to come close. He isn’t disgusted with your mistakes, or disappointed with your lack of effort.

Instead of holding you to some impossible standard of perfection, He holds out wide His arms of endless grace.

On this Christmas Day, centuries ago, He came to give you eternal life knowing that the cost was His own and that you may never receive the Gift.

This is the heart of Christ, the heart of Christmas: a God who gave of Himself, and keeps on giving, no. matter. what.

Because you were worth it all and He is more than worthy of our praise today and everyday.

“… a God who quietly beckons every man, every woman to simply come, bend, make space, receive.” (Ann Voskamp)

Come, let us adore Him.

xo,
celia

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Today’s truth: Be Still & Know, There is Always

Today’s truth: Be Still & Know, There is Always Hope 🌟

Hope comes when you least expect it, like a candle flickering in the dark night of Advent. It hushes even the heaviest of burdens. As you cry out for Christ to just come already and rescue you from all the pain this world holds, Hope sustains.

Hope has a name, and that Name is Jesus; The Hope of Glory.

He’s the One who came down and wrapped Himself in flesh to give the gift of Himself to a hopeless and hurting world.

That’s why, in the dark night of Advent, a candle burns brightly 🕯

It’s not a candle lit by you in your own strength. It’s not lit by any outward achievement or dollar earned. It’s not lit by your standard of perfection or your seemingly ‘good’ behavior.

The candle of Hope can only be lit by the One who bore the weight of all your hopelessness.

And that’s the reason why you can still hold onto Hope no matter what season or circumstance you face. Because no matter what, God made a promise, He took an oath, binding Himself to you for all eternity. You can be certain that His vow will be upheld because Hope isn’t capable of breaking His promises.

And so, look for the Glory that breaks through all of the mundane just to get to you as He whispers, be still and know, there is always Hope.

xo,
celia

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Only two more days until Christmas — two more da

Only two more days until Christmas — two more days until the coming of Christ ♥️

Will you rest in God’s truth with me as the days of Advent dwindle down to seconds?

Today’s truth: Be Still & Know, There’s Wisdom to Be Found in the Waiting 🕯

Proverbs 3:5-6,13-17:

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take.

Joyful is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gains understanding. For wisdom is more profitable than silver, and her wages are better than gold. Wisdom is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. She offers you long life in her right hand, and riches and honor in her left. She will guide you down delightful paths; all her ways are satisfying.“

This command, this invitation, to drop your own understanding and follow His doesn’t just extend itself in the harvest seasons of life. No, this invitation to come under the Lord and seek His wisdom extends to every season.

Even in the waiting, God has much to show you. Even in your breathless anticipation, God is constantly revealing Himself to you. What may feel like dormancy is really an opportunity for you to come fully awake to the presence of God.

Wintering, waiting seasons are seasons “to rest well and feel restored” when you are allowed to “retreat and be quietly separate.”

Separate from the world, perhaps, but never separate from Jesus.

Never detached from the One who authors your wintering, waiting seasons. Because the truth is, that there is wisdom to be uncovered in the waiting. There is truth to discover and transformation that occurs in the buried depths of your own hoping, expecting, and longing.

Like a baby, woven from heaven and placed in the womb of a virgin, waiting 9 months to take His first breath just so He could breathe His last for you.

Because winter, though it may feel like forever, always comes to an end.

And when the harvest comes, you’ll want to be ready, which is why amidst the wintering you must be still and know, there is wisdom to be found in the waiting.

xo,
celia

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Today’s truth: Be Still & Know, You Can Rest 🕯☕️

“The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters, He refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for His name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely Your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” - Psalm 23

God reveals Himself as both Lord and Shepherd in the very first verse of Psalm 23. He keeps nothing of Himself hidden, but readily extends Who He is as an open invitation for you to rest. To rest knowing that the One who is Lord and Master of your life also takes great care in guiding, directing, and providing for you as your Shepherd.

Not only does the Lord rule in your heart, mind, and soul, but the Shepherd tends to every wound, sees every need, and hears every longing. He’s a King that doesn’t just reign but a Father Who chooses to come close and reveal His tender love to you.

The Shepherd knows that without quietness and rest, wholeness is useless. And unrest comes when we forget Who Christ is. Lack, by definition, is “the state of being without or not having enough of something; a deficiency, absence, shortage, or drought”.

But the God Who sees the drought also provides the quiet waters that promise to refresh your tired, weary soul.

When you feel the sting of lack creep in, that’s when you refer back to the Shepherd and choose to believe that in the heaviness of life, He provides a hope that cannot be shaken. And because of that of hope, your reality is not one of lack but of great abundance in the presence of God.

Because of that hope, because God is Lord and Shepherd all in one, be still and know, you can rest.

xo,
celia

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Amidst the rush and hurry that comes with the fina

Amidst the rush and hurry that comes with the final week leading up to Christmas, will you join me in resting in Who God is?

Todays truth: Be Still & Know, God Sits Enthroned 👑

“He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy and spreads them out like a tent to live in.” - Isaiah 40:22

The Holy One invites you to be present to what He’s doing in each moment, but in order to be present, you must let go.

You must let go of your own expectations, your own ideas of what your life should look like, and submit your heart’s deepest longings and your mind’s most colossal fears to the One who sits enthroned.

To enthrone something or someone means to install (a monarch) on a throne, especially during a ceremony to mark the beginning of their rule. And since the beginning of time, before mankind was ever crafted and molded into the very image of God, God has sat enthroned above it all.

The very moment you decided to invite Christ to dwell within you, you not only gave Him access to your heart, soul, and mind but vowed, from that day forward, that He would reign and rule over every area of your life. To allow God to be Lord of your life – to sit enthroned above it all – requires a sincere, humble surrendering to Christ every moment of every day.

So there He sits, the Holy One, the Creator God, waiting for you – the created – to turn to Him with everything, in every season. There He waits, tucked into every moment of each day beckoning you to trust and let go so that He can reveal His goodness and glory.

You can trust the One who has no rival and summons the stars by name.

You can be still & know, God sits enthroned 🖤

xo,
celia

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On the blog last week, I shared with you that my h

On the blog last week, I shared with you that my holiday posture this year is ‘be still & know’.

This Christmas season, I want to posture my heart toward a state of quiet grace.

I want to slow down, let go of all that feels heavy and awkward in my life right now, and let God be God so that I can see God in everything.

To hold myself accountable to that, I’m going to post every day this week leading up to Christmas a truth about God or myself in God that I can rest in — that invites me to be still & know.

Will you join me in resting in God’s truth this week, friend, so we can behold more of Jesus in these last few days of Advent? 🕯

Today’s truth is: Be Still & Know, You Are His 🤍

Knowing the One who holds you is how you become whole; it’s how you see the hands that are holding you.

But even when you are struggling to see all that He is amidst the deep waters and stormy seas that life tends to bring, He holds you close and calls you His.

Yahweh, the Hebrew name for God meaning ‘covenant-keeping God’, picks you up and carries you on His shoulders even when you forget to reach for Him. His faithfulness doesn't depend on yours, nor do His promises depend on your word, because it’s He that always gets the last word and His words always sound like,

“I have called you by name, and you are Mine.” (Isaiah 43:1)

Yahweh, translating in Hebrew as YHWH, meaning ‘behold the nailed hand’, invites you to hold the hand that bled for you. To take in, fully ingest, the miracle of the Cross and the nails that pierced the One who promises, for eternity, to fill every longing, heal every wound and sit with you through every season of this helter-skelter, sideways kind of life.

This is the God you belong to, the God embracing you this Advent season.

This is Yahweh, YHWH, ‘behold the nailed hand’, the One who tenderly reaches out, calls you to His presence, and invites you to be still and know, you are His.

xo,
celia

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“Your hands need not bring anything of your own

“Your hands need not bring anything of your own making. What God wants for Christmas is simply your bended knee.” - Ann Voskamp; The Greatest Gift 🤍

What Christ craves is you and every crevice of your heart and every ounce of your being.

All of your imperfections, wounds, scars, mistakes; the beautiful mess that you are is what He wants.

Just as the shepherds ran from the fields in the dead of night just to catch a glimpse of the newborn King, God invites us to run to the manger.

To bend our knee and receive Him as King. To lay down what we carry so our hands and hearts are free to invite Him in. To wonder and awe at the miracle of Immanuel — God With Us.

God With You.

“Come, let us — adore Him.”

Let this breath prayer be a reminder to you this Christmas season to be still, to quiet your racing mind, and bring everything to the newborn King.

xo,
celia

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It’s a Christmas GIVEAWAY 🎄🎁📚🕯 To

It’s a Christmas GIVEAWAY 🎄🎁📚🕯

To celebrate the release of You Are Beloved, I will be giving away a free copy of the Bible study along with a Christmas tree scented, soy candle from one of my favorite candle companies — Swan Creek Candles.

To enter, it’s so simple! Follow me, like and save this post, and tag at least 3 friends in the comments 💕 for an additional entry, share this post to your story so others can join in on the giveaway fun! Remember to tag me so I can see if you do post to your story 🙂

Giveaway ends this Saturday at 9am EST 🎉

Good luck! 🎄♥️

xo,
celia

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