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The Secret Scoreboard

Time for one of my top five favorite posts of the week! 😉

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Author Callie SusannaPosted on November 6, 2018November 6, 2018Categories FaithTags charlotte, church, elevationchurch, inspiration, journal, message, music, new, north carolina, notes, saturday, sermon, Sunday, weekend, worshipLeave a comment on The Secret Scoreboard

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In the wake of losing Stan Lee earlier this week (yesterday? I’m terrible at days), I’ve seen many tributes to him and his life on social media, television, and the radio. One resounding thing that echoed through all the remembrances of him was that his imagination was admired and will be remembered. And it just got me to thinking how spectacular it is to have lived to the age of 95 with your imagination intact—and not only that, but for your imagination to shape the entertainment of the world. I’ve always had a big imagination, and as I approach and enter adulthood, that seems to be one thing that I’m pressured to leave behind in childhood. But then keeping your imagination throughout adulthood is to be admired worldwide. So maybe we shouldn’t listen to others who tell us to let go of our imagination. Maybe we should be free to create and imagine as we are made in the image of the One who created us. What an imagination God has to have made the sun and moon and stars and plankton and whales and you and me and Stan Lee. Life is a vapor. 95 years is a good long life but the years go faster the older I get and I hope I remember to bring my imagination and kindness into each new year that comes.

I was totally gonna be hip and up-to-date with the youths these days and comment #tbt to when my youngest sister and I flew to Nashville by ourselves to treat ourselves to sister time and a conference...and then I realized it was Friday. And my social media game has lost. Again. Which is ironic because I have more followers on Instagram than my blog and Twitter combined (I think. Rough estimate y’all.) But ANYWAY I uploaded a pretty raw update on my blog today (link in bio) that explains why I haven’t been as faithful to write on my blog. Also, I’m kinda squatting in this picture because Hope wanted to be taller than me. (Check our her blog btw—she has put SO MUCH effort into research and raising awareness for treating God’s creation well and I’m super proud of her. Her blog is hopefortheanimals.wordpress.com)

There are two things I absolutely adore in this world that never fail to delight me: getting packages in the mail and journals. I am currently writing in three different journals at a time and have four waiting on me to start when I finish up the current ones. So getting these @ellieclairegifts journals in the mail this weekend was delightful! Each one is so unique and incorporate art and hand letting. I’ll be posting a review of them on my blog in a week, so keep an eye out! #blog #blogger #journal #mailhaul #packages #ellieclairegifts

Okay, so you may have noticed by now that posting up-to-date pictures on here is not really my forte. This picture was taking almost one month ago now at the @abound_co with @jessaconnolly — my favorite author! She wrote @wildandfreebook, #AlwaysEnoughNeverTooMuch, and #DanceStandRun (which I’m currently reading), and WOW, they are all so deep and raw and open and vulnerable. I love it. I love it when women are real with each other and unashamed, when they can say “I may not be worthy but my God sure is!” That’s the kind of woman @jessaconnolly is. Her Instagram page is my absolute favorite page I follow. She’s honest and hopeful and hilarious. Getting to meet her and tell her my story of how her words impacted and inspired me was surreal. If you want encouragement, transparency, or just to know you’re not alone, follow her. Read her books. Read the Bible. And know that all of this—this God, this hope, this joy, this faith—it’s real. It’s genuine. It’s hard and it’s blood and it’s sweat and it’s tears and it’s war, but it’s the most real thing I’ve ever experienced. Also. Ignore the sweatshirt. (Although it is my favorite sweatshirt @conteam it doesn’t match the dress. And I promise it’s a cute dress and I actually looked decent at this conference considering I had been traveling for the two weeks leading up to it and hadn’t been home...so...perspective. But man, it was cold in there and who cares if you’re cute if you’re frozen.) Also, shoutout to my amazing sis who came to the conference with me and our friend @allycat235 for hosting us and hanging out. Such a fun trip!!

It’s finally starting to feel like fall which means that if you come to my house and get rid of the MASSIVE spider hanging out by the bird feeder out front, I swear to love you forever. *UPDATE* Massive spider is gone and the everlasting love giveaway has now closed. Michael (the hurricane) wins.

Adding some more states this week, bringing my total up to 21/50, 42% of the US 🤗🤓😎Also it’s REALLY COLD up here 😭.

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